The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. Lodge.

The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
nether-solder-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1983
Type
Lodge
Address
The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers, the Street, Swannington
OS grid reference
TG 133 192
Coordinates
52.72888, 1.15846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lodge and attached gates and gate piers are made of colourwashed brick and flint, topped with a black pantile roof. The building has an 'L' shaped plan, featuring a single storey outshut to the west and 19th-century wrought iron gates to the north. It is an extended and modified house with a 17th-century brick parapet gable to the west, which has returns to the north and south. This gable includes moulded brick kneelers and a blocked moulded brick window. There is 18th-century brick infill to the north and south, reaching up to the flint work on the north side, along with a moulded brick plinth. A shallow gabled brick projection to the north has a blocked lodge keeper's doorway. The east side features an 18th-century parapet gable with brick kneelers, a plinth, a platband at attic floor level, and brick tumbling in. A late 18th-century extension to the south has a plinth and a parapet gable with tumbling in. The building has 20th-century doors and windows, a steeply pitched roof with an axial stack to the south, and a 20th-century gable stack to the west. The side gate has solid panelled cast iron piers, while the central double gates feature hollow piers with scrolled wrought iron decoration and ball finials. The profile of the gates and railings sweeps down from the piers, and the railings include a dog rail and spear top finials.

Local climate

The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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