Gate Lodges and Gates at South East Entrance to Hatfield Park (Pepper Pot) is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Lodges.

Gate Lodges and Gates at South East Entrance to Hatfield Park (Pepper Pot)

WRENN ID
old-tallow-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1966
Type
Lodges
OS grid reference
TL 247 066
Coordinates
51.74433, -0.19465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate lodges and gates at the southeast entrance to Hatfield Park, known as the Pepper Pot, consist of a pair of lodges. The left lodge may date from the early 17th century, while the external details of the left lodge and the entire right lodge are from the early to mid-19th century. Both lodges are constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The left lodge is octagonal and single storey, featuring a dressed stone plinth and a band of pierced stonework in a quatrefoil pattern, along with a stone cornice and a pyramid-shaped plain tile roof. The right lodge is two storeys tall, also with a similar plinth and stone band, and is octagonal with a square addition on the right side. It has paired and single upper storey casements, a traceried brick parapet, and a chimney stack with arrises. The lodges are complemented by simple 19th-century cast iron gates with quatrefoil openwork and square stone piers.

Local climate

Gate Lodges and Gates at South East Entrance to Hatfield Park (Pepper Pot) 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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