West Lodge, Gate Piers and Gate Tower is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1967. Gate lodge.

West Lodge, Gate Piers and Gate Tower

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1967
Type
Gate lodge
Address
West Lodge, Gate Piers and Gate Tower, B 1281, Castle Eden
OS grid reference
NZ 419 381
Coordinates
54.73663, -1.35058
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Lodge, along with its gate piers and gate tower, was built around 1800 by William Atkinson as the former gate lodge to the Castle Eden Estate. The structure is made of limestone ashlar, and the roof of the lodge is not visible.

The lodge itself is asymmetrical, featuring a two-storey, one-bay tower on the left, which is enclosed by a one-storey L-plan wing at the rear. The design is in the Gothick style, characterized by a chamfered plinth, hoodmoulds, and embattled parapets. The tower section includes a two-light pointed-arched window with Gothick glazing bars and a similar single-light window above it. To the left, there is a semi-octagonal gate pier, and the right return has similar windows along with a tall stepped octagonal stack at the rear. The lower wing has a former doorway on the left with a raised shield above it and lancet windows at the rear.

The octagonal gate piers stand about 2.5 meters high and feature concave-sided capitals topped with low pyramidal caps, although the gates themselves are missing. The square gate tower, which is approximately 4.5 meters high and located at the far left, has embattled parapets, a gate pier respond on the right return, and a blocked lancet at the rear.

There are 20th-century additions to the left of the lodge and a 20th-century embattled wall made of concrete that runs west from the gate tower, which is not considered of special interest.

Local climate

West Lodge, Gate Piers and Gate Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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