Entrance Lodge and Gatepiers Approximately 50 Metres to West of Woolhampton House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. Entrance lodge.
Entrance Lodge and Gatepiers Approximately 50 Metres to West of Woolhampton House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-cellar-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Entrance lodge
- OS grid reference
- SU 576 675
- Coordinates
- 51.40405, -1.17298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance lodge and gatepiers, located approximately 50 metres to the west of Woolhampton House, were built around 1858, likely by John Johnson. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings, featuring a plat band, a tiled half hipped roof, and two stacks with over-sailing caps. It has a T-plan and is one and a half storeys high.
On the west front, there is an arched casement in the gable end with arched mullions, stone impost blocks, and a keystone. The central ground floor has a hipped canted bay with casements, flanked by one-storey wings that have shaped parapets curving down from the central block. These wings end in rusticated square piers topped with ball finials, each with an arched entrance featuring stone impost blocks and a keystone, although the entrance to the left is blocked.
The south front includes a half hipped wing that projects to the right, which has an arched casement in the gable end and a hipped canted bay below. To the left, there is a one-storey projection with a shaped parapet that curves down to a three-bay porch supported by two columns and topped with a central gable.
The two gatepiers with flanking walls to the south of the lodge are square rusticated brick piers with stone cornices, each crowned by carved stone armorial devices. The flanking walls are approximately two metres long; the wall to the south features an arched doorway with a stone keystone and a four-panelled door, along with a rusticated square brick pier to the right topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
Entrance Lodge and Gatepiers Approximately 50 Metres to West of Woolhampton House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings