Fortgate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1956. House.
Fortgate
- WRENN ID
- turning-trefoil-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fortgate, St Michael's Hill, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 120 258
- Coordinates
- 51.02511, -3.2551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fortgate is a house from the 18th century, constructed of red sandstone random rubble with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks. It is two storeys high and has a basement, featuring three bays. The house includes 16-pane sash windows and a central doorway adorned with a broken pediment and fluted Tuscan columns. Above the doorway is a tracery fanlight, and the entrance is a six-panel door accessed by a short flight of steps from the right, which is complemented by 20th-century wrought iron railings.
Local climate
Fortgate receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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