Lion Gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Gateway.
Lion Gate
- WRENN ID
- night-wall-gilt
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Lion Gate, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 523 380
- Coordinates
- 52.01973, 0.21861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lion Gate is the principal gateway to Audley End House, rebuilt in 1786. It is constructed from oolitic stone, which is now colourwashed. The gate features a large central carriageway and smaller side footways, all with semicircular arched heads set between inner and outer piers that have recessed panelled pilasters. The footways are flanked by walling with recessed panels above.
Above the central arch, there is an attic storey with an inscription panel that displays the date of 1786, topped by a Coade stone gorged lion on a chapeau inscribed "Coade, London." Additionally, draped oval Coade stone urns sit atop the flanking piers, while the lower terminal piers also have smaller similar urns, with the ones to the west made of Coade stone and those to the east in imitation. The date 1616 is set in the spandrels of the central gate arch.
The gates are wrought iron, decorated with leaf motifs, and consist of two leaves for each archway, accompanied by subsidiary iron gate piers at the central archway. All paired gates feature a dropped swept centre and spearhead railings.
Local climate
Lion Gate sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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 0.4°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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