Entrance Lodge South East of Peckforton Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1984. A Victorian Lodge. 8 related planning applications.
Entrance Lodge South East of Peckforton Castle
- WRENN ID
- haunted-brass-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Entrance Lodge South East of Peckforton Castle, Stone House Lane, CW6 9TN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 538 575
- Coordinates
- 53.1132, -2.69162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Entrance Lodge, located south-east of Peckforton Castle, was built in the mid-19th century by the architect Salvin. It features a combination of red brick and stone with a tiled roof and stands two storeys tall. The lodge includes a turret, an archway, and three bays. The stonework is rock-faced with smooth dressings. The main arch of the gateway is designed in a Gothic style, recessed and flanked by shallower arches and ribs. It is fitted with a pair of flat-topped oak gates on ornamental strap hinges, divided into vertical panels, one of which has a small wicket-door. The archway is ovolo moulded and is accompanied by a round tower with a conical roof, which sits atop a square base on the south side, while a large reducing buttress is located on the north side.
Above the archway, there are two-light trefoil-headed windows on the east and west sides, with the inscription "Confido conquiesco" positioned beneath the window on the rear (west) side of the opening. The lodge itself has shouldered-linteled metal casements in pairs on the ground floor, and trefoil-headed casements in stone half dormers at the end bays on the first floor. The centre bay on the first floor also features shouldered lintels. The north gable and dormers are adorned with copings that have fillet-moulded kneelers and gablet finials. A stone chimney, reduced at the ridge level, has a slotted fillet cap. The doors leading from the archway to the round tower and lodge are studded oak, hung on ornamental strap hinges, with heads fitted to shouldered lintels. Inside, the doors in the lodge entrance porch are boarded and also studded with ornamental strap hinges.
Local climate
Entrance Lodge South East of Peckforton Castle 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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