Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Lodge and gates. 1 related planning application.

Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden

WRENN ID
inner-loft-grain
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1987
Type
Lodge and gates
Address
Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden, Victoria Tower Gardens Sw1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 302 793
Coordinates
51.49814, -0.12553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden is a Grade I listed building constructed around 1850-1860 by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, as part of the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster for the Houses of Parliament. The lodge is made of magnesian limestone and features a Gothic/Tudor domestic style. It is a small, octagonal structure with one storey, showcasing a pointed arched doorway on the side and small cusped lancet lights. The building has a stepped and weathered plinth, a scroll moulded string capping at the wall head with miniature crewel cresting, and a pyramidal stone roof. The Tudor-Gothic gate piers are panelled and adorned with Puginesque Gothic ironwork on the gates.

Local climate

Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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