Chedgrave Gate to Langley Gate is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Gate lodge.
Chedgrave Gate to Langley Gate
- WRENN ID
- errant-stronghold-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Chedgrave Gate to Langley Gate, Chedgrave Gate to Langley Park, Norwich Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 352 994
- Coordinates
- 52.54174, 1.46778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chedgrave Gate to Langley Park is a pair of entrance lodges and gates built around 1784 by Sir John Soane, which were restored in 1980. The lodges are made of gault brick with limestone dressings and Coade stone decoration, featuring roofs that are concealed by an eaves parapet. The design is symmetrical, with one-storey lodges flanking a central arched gateway.
On the south side, each lodge has a central recessed sash window with glazing bars, topped by a semicircular arched head. Below the cill level, there is a blind balustrade with seven bays. The lodges also have a moulded stone plinth and parapet. Above the window openings, on the coping of the parapet, there is a figure of a greyhound rampant supporting a heraldic shield, with the motto "TOUJOURS FIDELE" at the base. The east and west walls feature blind semicircular headed recesses.
On the north side, there are two centrally placed half-glazed entrance doors with glazing bars and semicircular headed fanlights. The central semicircular arched gateway has a cornice of mutules and is surmounted by a shaped pediment. Two chimney finials are designed as pedestals with twisted fluting. Coade stone medallions are present in the arch spandrels. The gates consist of square uprights with gilded spearhead finials, a double lock rail, and intermediate uprights to form a dog guard, with the tops of the gates swept to reflect the line of the arch above. There is also an attached red brick boundary wall to the south-west, featuring saddleback coping.
Local climate
Chedgrave Gate to Langley Gate receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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