North Gate, Buckfast Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1951. Gateway.
North Gate, Buckfast Abbey
- WRENN ID
- quiet-column-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1951
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- North Gate, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast Road, Buckfastleigh, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 740 674
- Coordinates
- 50.49327, -3.7771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Gate at Buckfast Abbey is a gateway located at the north end of the outer court, dating from the 12th century with extensive later alterations. It is constructed from local grey limestone rubble with some red sandstone and features a slate roof. The gateway spans over the road, with remains of vaulting visible on the eastern block, which is now part of the abbey tearoom.
The exterior includes a chamfered semi-circular arch that springs from a chamfered impost. To the right, the gable end of the tearoom wing has two 20th-century two-light casement windows. The right side of the tearoom features three ground-floor and three first-floor splayed two-light windows, with the first-floor windows having chamfered lintels and two first-floor Gothick timber casements. There is a 20th-century ground floor plank and cover strip front door.
Historically, a phased plan by S.W. Brown was published in 1988, and some rough sketches of the North Gate from the 1930s by A.W. Everett are preserved at the abbey.
Local climate
North Gate, Buckfast Abbey receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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