Mellington Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 October 1996. Gatehouse. 1 related planning application.
Mellington Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-cellar-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1996
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Mellington Gatehouse, Montgomery, Churchstoke, SY15 6HX
- OS grid reference
- SO 251 929
- Coordinates
- 52.52935, -3.10431
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mellington Gatehouse is a symmetrical, Gothic-style gatehouse built in the 19th century, featuring three bays and two storeys. It is constructed from rock-faced, grey random masonry with sandstone dressings and has an asbestos tile roof with two sandstone ridge stacks, one on each end bay. The central bay includes a gateway beneath a four-centred arch, topped by a steeply pitched coped gable. Flanking the gateway are two smaller pedestrian passageways, each adorned with ornate cast iron gates. The central gable features stone coping and a finial, with an inscribed coat of arms under a hood mould that reads 'Pax et harmonica'. On either side of the central gable are cast iron brackets designed to support lanterns.
The outer bays have gabled fronts and canted bay windows with pierced parapets. Above each bay window is a two-light window under a hood mould, along with a small trefoiled light in the gable apex. All windows are designed as trefoil-headed lancets. The sides of the gatehouse include small lean-tos with string courses.
The rear of the gatehouse mirrors the front, but the canted bay windows have been replaced with triple light windows, each containing trefoil-headed lancets, and there is a window in the gabled pediment. The lean-to sections feature modern windows.
Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection in January 1996.
Local climate
Mellington Gatehouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Radon risk assessment
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