Ellesmere Lodge with Attached Walls and Pair of Gate Piers Immediately to East is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Lodge.
Ellesmere Lodge with Attached Walls and Pair of Gate Piers Immediately to East
- WRENN ID
- wild-lintel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 409 342
- Coordinates
- 52.90236, -2.87881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ellesmere Lodge, built in 1836 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring, is an entrance lodge that is now disused. It is constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar on a rock-faced ashlar plinth and features a slate roof with moulded coped verges. The building is designed in a Gothic style and has a T-plan, consisting of a single storey. The front of the lodge includes a 4-light oriel window with 4-centred heads. On the right gable, there is a steeply-gabled porch with both inner and outer 4-centred arches, and an octagonal oriel to the right that has a projecting finial from a crenellated parapet. The ridge stack has two attached octagonal shafts with chamfered capping. The projecting front gable features a stepped external stack with short moulded shafts and a datestone inscribed "F/C K/M" along with the date "1836" in Gothic lettering within a diamond-shaped panel. Attached to the left of the lodge is a crenellated wall made of roughly coursed sandstone rubble, forming a small square enclosure with a segmental-headed doorway at the front and an infilled doorway to the left. Approximately 4 meters to the east of the lodge are the gate piers made of sandstone; the left pier is octagonal with a finial projecting from a crenellated parapet, while the right pier is square with moulded capping and a finial. The interior was noted to be in poor condition during a resurvey in February 1987, but it was observed to have a chamfered ceiling beam in the rear left room.
Local climate
Ellesmere Lodge with Attached Walls and Pair of Gate Piers Immediately to East receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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