Rake Park Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. A N/A Entrance lodge. 4 related planning applications.
Rake Park Lodge
- WRENN ID
- hollow-panel-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Entrance lodge
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Rake Park Lodge, Hodnet, SY4 5JY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 582 288
- Coordinates
- 52.85594, -2.62176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rake Park Lodge is an entrance lodge built around 1840, constructed from dressed red sandstone, which may have originally been of ashlar quality, and features a plain tile roof. The building is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and is positioned at right angles to the road. It consists of one storey and an attic, with diagonal buttresses that have chamfered offsets, a coved cornice, and parapeted gable ends with chamfered copings and moulded kneelers. There is an integral brick end stack located at the rear.
On the first floor, there is a chamfered mullioned stone window that has two round-arched lights and a returned hoodmould. The porch features a pair of boarded doors set in a depressed arched entrance. Stone canted bays are located to the east and west, each with a configuration of 1:2:1 lights, supported by pairs of large stone brackets. A lower short range is present at the rear, along with a 20th-century addition to the southeast. The interior has not been inspected.
Historically, this lodge served as the entrance to Rake Park, which was once part of the Hawkstone Estate. It is depicted on an estate map from around 1840, held at the Shropshire Records Office.
Local climate
Rake Park Lodge receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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