Gate Piers, Adjoining Walls and Attached Piers at Drakelow Lodge Entrance to Drakelow Power Station is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1985. Gate piers.
Gate Piers, Adjoining Walls and Attached Piers at Drakelow Lodge Entrance to Drakelow Power Station
- WRENN ID
- patient-plaster-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1985
- Type
- Gate piers
- OS grid reference
- SK 230 191
- Coordinates
- 52.76919, -1.65935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, adjoining walls, and attached piers at the entrance to Drakelow Power Station were built around 1900 by Reginald Blomfield for Robert Gresley of Drakelow Hall. They are made of ashlar and coursed rubble. The pair of gate piers stand 15 feet high, each featuring moulded bases and acanthus leaf cornices, topped with large ball finials on deep bases that are decorated with sculptured garlands and flowers. The front face of each pier displays a carved coat of arms set in a Baroque cartouche, from which hang swags of fruit and bows. Each pier has a pilaster strip with a scrolled top on the inside face, from which hang 20th-century iron gates. Curving stone walls with rubble copings extend from either side, rising to the piers and finishing in scrolled brackets. These walls are terminated at the other end by smaller piers that have moulded bases and cornices, also topped by ball finials. Drakelow Hall was demolished in 1934, and Drakelow Power Station now occupies most of the site.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Adjoining Walls and Attached Piers at Drakelow Lodge Entrance to Drakelow Power Station receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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