West Lodge and Attached Gatepiers to South is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Lodge.
West Lodge and Attached Gatepiers to South
- WRENN ID
- sacred-spindle-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- West Lodge and Attached Gatepiers to South, Congleton Road, Moreton Cum Alcumlow
- OS grid reference
- SJ 831 599
- Coordinates
- 53.1366, -2.25343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge and the attached gatepiers to the south are located on Congleton Road. This gate lodge, built for Great Moreton Hall around 1841-1843 by Edward Blore, is constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar and features a 20th-century roof made of cement tiles. The building has a single storey and a T-shaped plan.
The entrance front includes a projecting gabled bay on the right, which features a canted bay with a moulded plinth and three 20th-century lights at the center, along with casements at the corners. Above this is a brattished parapet, behind which is a hipped roof of ashlar that rises into the gable, adorned with moulded kneelers and a moulded coping topped with a finial. At the apex of the gable is a canopied niche that holds the Ackers shield, which is suspended from a stylized leather strap with a buckle.
To the left of the gabled bay is a recessed portion, and at the re-entrant angle, there is a gabled porch featuring a panelled wooden door and a quatrefoil in the gable, which also has a moulded coping, a kneeler to the left, and a finial at the apex. The left side has blank walling. A chimney stack made of ashlar, with four octagonal chimney pots and brattishing at the top, is located at the junction of the ridges. At the rear, there is a 20th-century extension with a flat roof.
The attached gatepiers to the south are octagonal on a plinth, topped with weathered caps over a moulded cornice, and are surmounted by fleur de lis finials.
Local climate
West Lodge and Attached Gatepiers to South receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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