West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Lodge, gateway.
West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle
- WRENN ID
- quartered-soffit-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Lodge, gateway
- OS grid reference
- NU 056 255
- Coordinates
- 55.52329, -1.91244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle is a lodge and gateway built in 1835 by Edward Blore for the Earl of Tankerville. It is constructed from dressed stone and features a Welsh slate roof, showcasing Tudor and Jacobean architectural styles.
The lodge is L-shaped, with one and a half storeys and two bays. The left bay projects and has a stone-roofed canted bay window on the ground floor, with a 2-light window above that is set under a hoodmould. The lodge also includes casement windows with double-chamfered surrounds. The right bay is blank and has a front lean-to. The roof features gabled coping, kneelers, and finials, along with an off-centre transverse stack that has two diagonal shafts. A small gabled porch is located on the left return.
The gateway is marked by a wide curved wall that steps up on the right side to the lodge. The lower left section includes two end piers and two central square piers, all topped with roll-moulded ogee caps and similar finials. The central piers support cast iron gates with obelisk finials, flanked by two-stage square towers that sit on plinths at the height of the wall. Each tower features a lower stage with two arcaded sections and a roll-moulded ogee roof that transitions into a diagonally-set upper stage, which also has a similar top and finial.
Local climate
West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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