Entrance Screen and East and West Front Lodges to Attingham Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1952. Entrance screen and lodges. 1 related planning application.
Entrance Screen and East and West Front Lodges to Attingham Park
- WRENN ID
- ruined-facade-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1952
- Type
- Entrance screen and lodges
- Address
- Entrance Screen and East and West Front Lodges to Attingham Park, A5, Atcham, SY5 6QH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 541 093
- Coordinates
- 52.67994, -2.67917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance screen and the East and West Front Lodges to Attingham Park were built around 1805-1807, likely designed by John Nash, with later additions to the lodges. Constructed from grey sandstone ashlar, the entrance screen features five bays arranged in an AABAA rhythm. It has a large central carriage arch, flanked by pedestrian arches and small square lodges. The structure includes a moulded plinth, frieze, cornice, and blocking course, as well as banded rusticated piers topped with swagged urn-finials.
The central round arch has imposts, a moulded architrave, a scrolled keystone, and carved bas reliefs in the spandrels depicting a winged horse on the left and a stag on the right. There are Doric half-columns on either side, a frieze inscribed with "QUI : UTI : SCIT : EI : BONA", and a dentil cornice that projects over the columns with an architrave and carved lion masks. The centre also features a blocking course and a stepped plinth. The outer pedestrian arches have imposts and moulded architraves.
The wrought-iron gates are designed with a radial pattern, featuring a central patera and thistle-head railings. The large central pair of gates has top rails that ramp up to hanging bars with urn finials, while smaller single gates are located in the pedestrian arches.
The lodges are two storeys high and include integral octagonal corner stacks with banded rustication and moulded caps. The front of the lodges has shallow recessed arches with a continuous impost band, moulded architraves, a pair of narrow ground-floor sash windows, and a lunette above on the first floor. The return fronts feature a cill string for the first-floor glazing bar sash and a ground-floor door with four flush panels. Each lodge has a later addition at the rear.
The entrance screen and flanking screen walls were likely part of improvements made to the Attingham Estate after 1800 for the second Lord Berwick, carried out by John Nash and Humphry Repton.
Local climate
Entrance Screen and East and West Front Lodges to Attingham Park receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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