West Lodge and Entrance Screen is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Gate lodge.
West Lodge and Entrance Screen
- WRENN ID
- waning-wattle-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- West Lodge and Entrance Screen, Rokeby
- OS grid reference
- NZ 079 141
- Coordinates
- 54.52244, -1.87828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge and Entrance Screen is a gate lodge and entrance screen built in the early 19th century for J.B.S. Morritt. The structure is primarily made of ashlar stone, except for the squared stone on the left return of the lodge, and features a Lakeland slate roof with cast and wrought iron gates. It is designed in the Greek Revival style.
The lodge is a single-storey, one-bay building with an eaves cornice supported by block corbels. It has a shallow distyle-in-antis Doric porch that encloses a fielded-panel door set in a panelled stone surround. The roof is low and pyramid-shaped, topped with a small banded stack at the apex. The right return of the lodge features a broad recess with a 9-pane sash window in a panelled surround, while the left return has a 16-pane sash window in a stone surround.
The gate piers have moulded bases and Greek key friezes, topped with seated stone sphinxes. Dwarf quadrant walls with gabled coping support railings with moulded spike finials that connect to similar end piers. The double gates have scroll-topped stiles, plain bars, dogbars, and crossed diagonals below the mid-rail. There is also a short length of railing with a similar single gate to the right of the outer pier, linking to the lodge.
Historically, the artist J.S. Cotman mentioned in a letter that he had made suggestions to Mr. Morritt regarding the lodges, which Morritt intended to take.
Local climate
West Lodge and Entrance Screen receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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