West Lodge to Downton Hall with Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Lodge.

West Lodge to Downton Hall with Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
sacred-corbel-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
SO 523 791
Coordinates
52.4085, -2.70178
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Lodge to Downton Hall, built around 1760, is a lodge constructed of stucco on brick with a Welsh slate roof. It features an external rubble stack with a brick chimney to the right and a brick stack on the east wing, designed in the Gothick style.

The lodge is two storeys high with an attic and has a single-window range. The first floor includes a Venetian window with a 20th-century 3/6 sash and plastered side lights set in an ogee-headed architrave. This window is flanked by quatrefoil recessed panels and panelled pilasters that connect to a storey band, topped with moulded capitals on an ogee-parapeted gable that has a quatrefoil light in a raised architrave.

The central entrance features a plank door within an ogee-headed doorcase, flanked by lancet lights, although the left light is blocked. The lodge has storey bands and a single-storey rubble wing to the right with a hipped roof and an attached outhouse that has a plain tile roof and a brick end stack. The outhouse includes a plank door in a beaded oak case. The left side of the lodge has a 6/6 sash window, while the rear features a 2-light casement window in the gable. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

West Lodge to Downton Hall with Attached Outbuildings receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 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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