Entrance Lodge and Gateway to Calke Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1967. Lodge. 14 related planning applications.
Entrance Lodge and Gateway to Calke Abbey
- WRENN ID
- dim-corbel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1967
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Entrance Lodge and Gateway to Calke Abbey, Ticknall
- OS grid reference
- SK 355 239
- Coordinates
- 52.81192, -1.47339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Entrance Lodge and Gateway to Calke Abbey is a lodge built around 1805 by William Wilkins Senior. It is constructed of rendered brick and ashlar, topped with a hipped Welsh slate roof that features a rendered ridge stack. The building stands two storeys tall, with a canted end facing the drive. The ground floor has three glazing bar sash windows, while a smaller glazing bar sash is positioned above, flanked by blind openings. On the north side, there is a flat-roofed porch that is open on two sides, supported by round arches with impost bands, and has a matching blind arch on the rear wall. The porch features a raised and fielded panelled door. To the east, there is a lower wing with 2-light casement windows.
Attached to the northwest is a wall and gateway. The gateway includes two round-arched pedestrian entrances made of ashlar, adorned with a moulded cornice and attic moulding. Each arch contains a single wrought iron gate with stick rail design and latticework piers. Between the two arches, there is a pair of similar gates featuring curved braces and matching latticework piers. This lodge was built as a gate lodge for Sir Henry Harpur, serving Calke Abbey.
Local climate
Entrance Lodge and Gateway to Calke Abbey receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% 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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- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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