Houghton Hall South Lodges with Gates, Gate Piers and Walls Attached is a Grade II* listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1985. Gate lodge.
Houghton Hall South Lodges with Gates, Gate Piers and Walls Attached
- WRENN ID
- slow-remnant-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1985
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Houghton Hall South Lodges with Gates, Gate Piers and Walls Attached, 34 and 35, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 790 277
- Coordinates
- 52.81784, 0.65584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Houghton Hall South Lodges, along with their gates, gate piers, and attached walls, are located at the south entrance to Houghton Hall. They were built around 1730, likely designed by William Kent and possibly supervised by architect Thomas Ripley. The lodges are constructed of whitewashed brick and feature slate roofs, with wrought iron gates of exceptional quality.
The lodges are rectangular in shape and two stories tall, with single-story extensions. The carriage drive side has part-glazed doors beneath pentice canopies, while the first floor has hinged sash windows with glazing bars. The buildings have rusticated quoins and gables that are designed as pediments, along with two end gable moulded stacks. Lean-tos on the park side are expressed as half pediments.
The south curtain wall includes a single two-light casement window and a coped parapet. The end piers are panelled and feature stone roundels. The east and west quadrants have coped walls that continue as straight walls with triangular coped piers, which screen the services of the lodges from the village.
The wrought iron gates connect both lodges and include two central carriage gates and two outer pedestrian gates, with fixed railings in between. The gates are divided by four major panel strips topped with cartouche heads, along with four minor panel divisions. The design features a spearhead dog-rail base, opposed curves at dado level, and rich foliage scrollwork pierced by spear heads. The lodges appear in block plans in Isaac Ware's "Plans of Houghton" from 1735 and its 1750 edition.
Local climate
Houghton Hall South Lodges with Gates, Gate Piers and Walls Attached receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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