Gate Piers at Top Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. A Victorian Gate pier.
Gate Piers at Top Lodge
- WRENN ID
- sunken-turret-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Gate pier
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Gate Piers at Top Lodge, Aldersey Green Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 461 557
- Coordinates
- 53.09619, -2.80592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers at Top Lodge, dating from around 1850, are made of reddish sandstone and have a cross-shaped plan. They feature ovolo mouldings along the chamfers. The overhanging cornices are adorned with voluting on all sides, supporting abaci that display arabesque motifs. Each pier is topped with finials, one of which has a ball terminal while the other has a dropped ball at the side. The gates have been removed.
Local climate
Gate Piers at Top Lodge receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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