Castellated Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Lodge.

Castellated Lodge

WRENN ID
crumbling-frieze-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Lodge
Address
Castellated Lodge, 78, Park Road West
OS grid reference
SJ 300 892
Coordinates
53.39532, -3.05346
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castellated Lodge is a lodge for Birkenhead Park, built between 1843 and 1847 by Lewis Hornblower and John Robertson under the direction of Sir Joseph Paxton. The structure is made of coursed and squared rubble with a leaded roof. It has two storeys and an asymmetrical plan featuring a series of towers. The main tower is advanced to the left and includes a single-storey flat-roofed porch at the angle, along with a 3-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor. The design incorporates angle buttresses and an embattled projecting parapet. There is a similar tower recessed to the right and an octagonal tower at the rear. This lodge is part of the original development of Birkenhead Park.

Local climate

Castellated Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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