Lodges and Gates to Alscot Park with Flanking Ashlar Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1967. Lodge.
Lodges and Gates to Alscot Park with Flanking Ashlar Walls
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-grate-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1967
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodges and Gates to Alscot Park with Flanking Ashlar Walls, Shipston Road (A 3400), Preston on Stour
- OS grid reference
- SP 211 506
- Coordinates
- 52.15399, -1.69172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodges and gates to Alscot Park, built around 1750 by Phillips and Shakespear for James West, are flanked by ashlar walls and are designed in a Rococo Gothic style. The pair of small square lodges, which have canted angles and small projections on their outer sides, are made of stucco with limestone ashlar dressings and topped with pyramidal slate roofs. The central gates, added around 1856 by George Clark, feature octagonal piers and flanking single gates. The walls curve outward to octagonal end piers and stretch a total of 33.5 meters.
Each lodge has an impost band and a top cornice with a crenellated parapet. The front, inner side, and rear of the lodges have pointed recesses, while the outer side includes a small projection with a pointed recess. The front features an ogee-headed window with a grille and a 3/6 sash with intersecting top glazing bars, along with tiny cusped ogee outer windows. The inner side has an entrance with a six-panelled door, four of which are fielded and the remainder flush-panelled. The rear has an ogee-headed window similar to the front, and the angles of the lodges have quatrefoil recesses. Each lodge has tall round stacks with some decorative enrichment, although the lodge on the right has a later lean-to outshut on its outer side.
The gates are enriched with armorial bearings and crests, and the gate piers have caps, with the right pier retaining a lantern. The walls feature plain coping and each has two square piers and an octagonal end pier, all topped with caps. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lodges and Gates to Alscot Park with Flanking Ashlar Walls receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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