No.54, 2 Pairs of Gate Piers, and Walls Adjoining Forming Entrance to Hornby Castle Drive is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. Lodge.
No.54, 2 Pairs of Gate Piers, and Walls Adjoining Forming Entrance to Hornby Castle Drive
- WRENN ID
- tired-stair-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- SD 585 684
- Coordinates
- 54.11055, -2.63595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 54 is a lodge for Hornby Castle, built in the mid-19th century, featuring walls and gate piers that create the entrance to Hornby Castle drive. The building is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble and has a steep slate roof behind an embattled parapet. It is two storeys high, with windows that have upper lights and Tudor-arched heads, each with a drip course above. A canted projection faces west towards the road, where the ground floor has a central mullioned and transomed window with six lights, flanked by two-light windows with transoms. The first floor has blank canted sides and a central cross window. The entrance is located in a two-storey projecting porch on the right-hand return wall, and at the rear, there is a circular embattled turret. A chimney is positioned at the center of the ridge.
To the right of the lodge are the gate piers made of sandstone ashlar. The central pair of piers have weathered plinths with a square plan, and their upper parts are chamfered to an octagon in two stages. Each pier is topped with a moulded cap featuring crenellation and a tapering top with an iron finial. Carved roundels, including figures of a cat and a rat, adorn the main faces of the central piers. These piers are flanked by a smaller pair with similar, but less elaborate, details. Concave walls with a string course and embattled parapet connect the lodge to the adjacent gate pier and flank the group, forming the entrance to the drive.
Local climate
No.54, 2 Pairs of Gate Piers, and Walls Adjoining Forming Entrance to Hornby Castle Drive sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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