Rowton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Lodge.
Rowton Lodge
- WRENN ID
- deep-lead-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Rowton Lodge, Alberbury with Cardeston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 381 125
- Coordinates
- 52.70706, -2.91673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowton Lodge is an entrance lodge, likely built between 1809 and 1812 by George Wyatt. It features coursed Alberbury breccia rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings and has a hipped thatched roof. The building is designed in an L-plan and showcases Tudor Gothic style, resembling a cottage orné. It is a single storey structure with an integral brick end stack on the right, which has a star-shaped shaft, and a brick stack on the rear wing with two star-shaped shafts.
On the right side, there is a canted bay with diamond leaded casements arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, featuring Tudor-arched lights and chamfered reveals. To the left, a three-bay loggia or porch has chamfered Tudor arches, a diagonal buttress with a chamfered offset, and a one-bay return to the left. Within the loggia, there is a one-light casement and a boarded door in the return to the right. The left-hand return front includes a two-light casement, while the right-hand return front has one-, two-, and three-light casements. The rear wing has been extended twice, as indicated by straight joints. The interior has not been inspected. Rowton Lodge serves as the south-eastern entrance lodge to Rowton Castle.
Local climate
Rowton Lodge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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