The Gatehouse with Front Boundary Walling is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1984. Former toll-house, house.

The Gatehouse with Front Boundary Walling

WRENN ID
twelfth-mullion-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1984
Type
Former toll-house, house
Address
The Gatehouse with Front Boundary Walling, Glastonbury Road, Wells
OS grid reference
ST 542 449
Coordinates
51.20215, -2.65689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gatehouse, originally a toll-house and now a house, was built around 1842-1843 and extended around 1900. The front part features ashlar stonework, while the rear is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings. The building has hipped Welsh slate roofs with wide eaves supported by brackets, and both ashlar and brick chimneys.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a roadside elevation consisting of three bays. It has a plinth, pilaster strips at the corners and between each bay, and an eaves band. The paired semicircular arched windows have central plain stone mullions and imposts with arches, with 8-pane casement infills. The central lower bay, which was originally the front door, has a pointed arched head and matching details but is now filled with a 2-light window. Above this window is a wrought-iron bracket that once supported a fee-board. There are matching single-bay returns, with 3-light windows on both sides. The rear addition features plain sash windows and includes a single-storey canted bay with a hipped roof on the west side. The current entrance is located on the west side.

A notable feature is the ashlar stone wall that extends from the south-west corner, approximately 1.9 meters high and 15 meters long, with coping and a plain gateway near the house. This wall enhances the setting of the building and the overall streetscape. The gatehouse was likely built when the tollgate was relocated from Southover to this site in 1842-1843.

Local climate

The Gatehouse with Front Boundary Walling receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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