Entrance Lodge to Mesnes Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Entrance lodge. 1 related planning application.

Entrance Lodge to Mesnes Park

WRENN ID
knotted-entrance-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1999
Type
Entrance lodge
Address
Entrance Lodge to Mesnes Park, Mesnes Park Terrace, WN1 1TU
OS grid reference
SD 581 062
Coordinates
53.55083, -2.63385
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance lodge to Mesnes Park, likely built in 1878, has been enlarged and altered over time. It is constructed from snecked sandstone with some half-timbering, and features brick at the west end and rear, topped with slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan and is designed in a Vernacular Revival style, comprising one-and-a-half and two storeys.

On the lower left side next to the gateway, there is a projecting gabled porch that includes a recessed side door and wooden balustrading, along with a half-timbered gable. The gable-end facing the street has a boarded window and a jettied plastered gable decorated with incised floral motifs. The two-storey section, which was added later and is set back to the right, features a doorway and a large rectangular bay window on the ground floor, two windows above, and a jettied half-timbered gable above the bay window. At the time of inspection, the lodge was unoccupied and boarded up.

Local climate

Entrance Lodge to Mesnes Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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