South Lodge to Witton Castle with Walls and Piers Attached and C.3 Metres to South-East is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Lodge.
South Lodge to Witton Castle with Walls and Piers Attached and C.3 Metres to South-East
- WRENN ID
- hollow-gable-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NZ 160 294
- Coordinates
- 54.65952, -1.75236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Lodge to Witton Castle, likely built in the early 19th century, features walls and piers in front. Constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, the roof is not visible. The walls and piers are made of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar coping, designed in a castellated style.
The structure includes a high one-bay gatehouse with a two-storey, two-bay lodge attached to the left. The entrance arch has low, 2-centred heads resembling a portcullis, topped with a machicolated parapet and flanked by arrow slits. The lodge features chamfered surrounds to paired ground-floor lancets, with smaller paired low 2-centred headed lights in the right bay, while the left bay is blank. The parapet has chamfered coping and is battlemented above the arch, with a turret at the rear right angle.
There is a 20th-century addition on the front left that is not of interest. A high wall attached to the left has flat coping, and a square pier at the left end has stepped coping and is rusticated. A similar pier located about 2 metres southeast of the lodge arch serves as the left pier of the side entrance to the estate, while the right pier is battlemented.
Local climate
South Lodge to Witton Castle with Walls and Piers Attached and C.3 Metres to South-East receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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