East Lodge and gateway to Preston Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Lodge, gateway.
East Lodge and gateway to Preston Tower
- WRENN ID
- leaning-gargoyle-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Lodge, gateway
- Address
- East Lodge and gateway to Preston Tower, Chathill, Ellingham, NE67 5DH
- OS grid reference
- NU 185 254
- Coordinates
- 55.52218, -1.70705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Lodge and gateway to Preston Tower is a gatepiers, screenwalls, and lodge built in 1866. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof.
The structure features tall square corniced piers adorned with acanthus friezes and pyramidal caps, flanked by lower similar piers with plain friezes. The low quadrant walls have a plinth with bold horizontal tooling and a balustraded parapet, along with moulded coping and similar end piers.
To the right, the single-storey, three-bay lodge has a central 20th-century door set within a surround that includes pilasters and a high semicircular pediment. This pediment is inscribed with the date and features a squirrel, which is the crest of the Baker Cresswells. The lodge has 20th-century windows in the original openings and a gabled roof with kneelers, ridged coping, and ball finials. It also has a tall corniced ridge stack with diagonally-set conjoined shafts. The lodge is included for its group value.
Local climate
East Lodge and gateway to Preston Tower receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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