Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Lodge, gateway.
Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway
- WRENN ID
- errant-jamb-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Lodge, gateway
- OS grid reference
- SU 614 779
- Coordinates
- 51.49732, -1.11632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Lodge and the adjoining gateway are an entrance lodge and gateway built in the mid to late 18th century, with a 20th-century addition at the rear. The structure is made of stuccoed brick featuring banded flint rustication and a string course. It has a dentil brick cornice and a triangular pediment over the central projection to the east, topped with an old tile roof, all designed in the Gothick style. The building stands two storeys tall.
On the east front, there is a central circular window on the first floor, adorned with rusticated keystones. Flanking this are two ground floor diamond leaded arched windows, alongside a central arched door that features an ogee-arched glazed panel. A small oval window is located on the first floor to the north, while the entrance to the rear is also present. To the right, set back, is an octagonal tower that rises in two stages and is topped with a battlemented brick parapet. The tower has arched traceried windows on alternating faces, with blank arched panels and blank circular panels featuring quatrefoils on each face above the first floor.
To the north, there is a four-centred brick archway with imposts and arched reveals, topped by a string and stone coped parapet. A coped brick retaining wall curves down to a square end pier to the north.
Local climate
Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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