South-west gateway to Montacute House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Gateway.
South-west gateway to Montacute House
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- South-west gateway to Montacute House, the Borough, TA15 6XP
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95009, -2.71575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The south-west gateway to Montacute House is an entrance gateway, likely built in the 19th century. It features walls and piers made of ham stone ashlar, along with a wrought-iron gate. The wing walls are approximately 2.5 meters high and have thin copings, curving back in a quarter-circle to the central gateway. This gateway is about 3 meters wide and has square piers with a plinth, a pulvinated frieze, and flat moulded cornice-caps. The pair of wrought-iron gates includes scroll-braced necked spearpoints on the middle and top rails, with ogee braces.
This gateway is an important part of the setting for Montacute House and contributes significantly to the streetscape at a prominent location in the village. It was likely constructed during the reorganization of the grounds that took place between 1845 and 1852.
Local climate
South-west gateway to Montacute House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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