Gate Piers and Screen at Main Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Gate piers and screen.
Gate Piers and Screen at Main Lodge
- WRENN ID
- gilded-bonework-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Gate piers and screen
- Address
- Gate Piers and Screen at Main Lodge, High Street, Old Warden
- OS grid reference
- TL 139 441
- Coordinates
- 52.08359, -0.33863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and screen at the main entrance to Old Warden Park were built around 1874 by Henry Clutton for Joseph Shuttleworth. They are made of dressed limestone and consist of four piers with chamfered angles, moulded tops, and ball finials featuring strapwork decoration. The two main gate piers are larger and have more elaborate mouldings at the top, including a foliate frieze, a ball frieze, and a miniature embattled parapet. These main piers are topped with spherical wrought iron and glass lamps. The upper part of the screen features square-headed arcading and moulded coping. The gates are from the 20th century.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Screen at Main Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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