West Lodge and Gateway to Ford Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. A Victorian Lodge, gateway.
West Lodge and Gateway to Ford Castle
- WRENN ID
- shifting-cellar-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Lodge, gateway
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- West Lodge and Gateway to Ford Castle, B6353
- OS grid reference
- NT 939 374
- Coordinates
- 55.63096, -2.09702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge and Gateway to Ford Castle is a lodge and gateway built in 1866, likely designed by David Bryce for the Marchioness of Waterford. The structure is made of ashlar stone and features a Welsh slate roof, showcasing a Gothic style.
The lodge is a single-storey building with three short radiating wings and a porch located in the angle between two of these wings. The porch includes a pointed-arched door and sidelights beneath a hoodmould. The gable displays the date and the monogram of Lady Waterford. The front of the lodge has three bays; the left bay projects at an angle and features a six-light canted bay window on the gable end, while the right side has two three-light mullioned and transomed windows. The roof is gabled with ridged and roll-moulded coping, kneelers, and a ridge stack with four clustered shafts. The roof also incorporates bands of purple and blue slate.
To the left of the lodge is a screen wall and gatepiers. The gatepiers are castellated and octagonal, flanked by arcades of twenty pointed arches. The rearing horses on the piers were added by Lord Joicey after 1907.
Local climate
West Lodge and Gateway to Ford Castle receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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