Gravel Pit Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1980. Lodge.
Gravel Pit Lodge
- WRENN ID
- keen-steel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1980
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Gravel Pit Lodge, Drayton Road, Swynnerton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 851 407
- Coordinates
- 52.96374, -2.22243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gravel Pit Lodge, dated 1859, is a two-storey building. The ground floor is constructed of stone rubble, while the first floor features a decorative timber frame and plaster. On the left side, there is a gable, with a smaller projecting gable below it set on a rounded stone base. The south side displays a gable with an overhanging oriel window above a stone mullioned canted bay window, which has leaded lights. At the rear, there is a plain doorway situated under a projecting hipped bay. A massive stone and brick chimney is located on the west side, and the roof is covered with tiles.
Local climate
Gravel Pit Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% 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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