Castle Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1973. A C19 Gate lodge. 14 related planning applications.
Castle Lodge
- WRENN ID
- north-baluster-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1973
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Castle Lodge, the Village, Brancepeth, DH7 8DE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 222 378
- Coordinates
- 54.73529, -1.65569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Lodge is a mid-19th century former gate lodge, now a private house, built for the Brancepeth Estate. It is constructed of squared sandstone in narrow courses, with ashlar dressings. The roof is green slate, with an ashlar chimney stack. The building is arranged in a T-shape, with a cross-gabled right bay projecting to the front and rear, and a set-back left bay forming the leg of the T. An entrance is located on the gabled return of the left bay. The right bay features a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould on the ground floor and a similar two-light window above. The gable has chamfered coping, ball finials on square kneelers, and a finial at the apex. A loggia with three Tuscan columns supporting a hipped roof is located on the left bay. A small gabled porch, featuring a chamfered round-arched doorway, is on the left return. A lean-to one-storey outshut is situated on the rear of the left bay. A tall lateral stack is on the right return. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Castle Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings