House at the Entrance to the Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Lodge.

House at the Entrance to the Lodge

WRENN ID
lost-paling-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 2000
Type
Lodge
Address
House at the Entrance to the Lodge, Richard's Castle (Shropshire)
OS grid reference
SO 506 722
Coordinates
52.34607, -2.72632
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a lodge dating from the 19th century, featuring an ashlar facade with rubble stone on the sides and rear. It has a slate hipped roof and an off-centre rendered ridge stack, with a cross-shaped plan. The exterior is a single storey and includes three casement windows. There is an entrance porch that projects between the windows to the left of centre, which has a studded boarded door with plain unframed lights on each side. The building also features an eaves cornice. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

House at the Entrance to the Lodge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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