The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Gate lodge.
The Lodge
- WRENN ID
- secret-alcove-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- The Lodge, Whitegate Road, Whitegate and Marton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 629 693
- Coordinates
- 53.2201, -2.55649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge is a gate lodge to Vale Royal Abbey, built around 1870. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a cross-shaped plan. The entrance front has a projecting central gable with an arched doorway that has a chamfered reveal. Above the doorway is a 4-light casement window with chamfered mullions and surround. The eaves are supported by timber brackets, and the roof displays alternating plain and fishscale tiles.
To the left of the entrance front, there is a large 20th-century addition. On the right-hand side, there is a central projecting gabled wing that includes a canted bay window on the ground floor, which features two stone-surrounded mullioned windows in the center and at the angles. Flanking this bay window are cross windows at ground floor level, and a 4-light casement window with a chamfered surround is located in the gable. The building is topped with two massive brick chimney stacks positioned on either side of the ridge.
Local climate
The Lodge receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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