Front Gate to Inwood is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Gateway.
Front Gate to Inwood
- WRENN ID
- pale-screen-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Front Gate to Inwood, Sherborne Road, Henstridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 715 198
- Coordinates
- 50.97767, -2.40723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front gate to Inwood is a 19th-century gateway made of Portland stone and wrought iron. It features a pair of central gates flanked by piers, side railings, and outer piers. The central piers are approximately 1 metre square at the base and rise to a height of 4.5 metres. They have a moulded plinth, a rusticated shaft, and corbelled bracketed cyma recta caps with double steps, each topped with lead statues: a woman with a rake on the west side and a man with a sickle on the right. The base walls connect to plainer side piers that have ball finials. The gates are intricately designed in a French style, featuring side frets and an overthrow that incorporates a cartouche with the letters MG, which stands for Merthyr Guest, all crafted in wrought iron openwork. The gates have shouldered arched tops, and the side railings are adorned with scrolled sweeps to match. This gateway is part of a large estate that includes many notable features, although the main house, built in 1881, is of lesser interest and not listed.
Local climate
Front Gate to Inwood 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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