Entrance Gates and Piers on Dancers Hill Road at Bentley Heath Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Entrance gates.
Entrance Gates and Piers on Dancers Hill Road at Bentley Heath Lodge
- WRENN ID
- muted-corridor-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Entrance gates
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 995
- Coordinates
- 51.68046, -0.19428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates and piers on Dancers Hill Road at Bentley Heath Lodge were likely designed in 1865 by S.S. Teulon for G. Byng, the 2nd Earl of Strafford, as part of Wrotham Park. The structure features coursed limestone rubble piers and wrought iron gates and railings. There is a carriage entrance to the left and a smaller entrance to the right, both leading to quadrants that extend to the flanking piers. All six piers are square, with bases and cornices, and the tallest ones at the carriage entrance are topped with a lion and a unicorn, each holding shields. The smaller pair of piers to the right have pyramidal heads, while the outer piers are adorned with ornamented ball finials. The gates and railings are also ornamental. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Entrance Gates and Piers on Dancers Hill Road at Bentley Heath Lodge 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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