Two Entrance Lodges, Gates, and Flanking Walls Approximately 300 Metres to North East of Purley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Entrance lodges, gates, walls.
Two Entrance Lodges, Gates, and Flanking Walls Approximately 300 Metres to North East of Purley Hall
- WRENN ID
- inner-latch-thrush
- 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
- Entrance lodges, gates, walls
- OS grid reference
- SU 647 760
- Coordinates
- 51.47998, -1.06927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes two entrance lodges, gates, and flanking walls located approximately 300 meters northeast of Purley Hall. The structures date from the 18th century, with 20th-century additions at the rear. The lodges are constructed of red brick featuring banded flint rustication and have a square plan. They are single-storey buildings with a brick string course and battlemented parapets. Each lodge includes a circular window on the north side, adorned with flint keystones and leaded lights, as well as an arched boarded door on the inner face. Between the lodges are two brick piers that support two 19th-century iron gates.
The flanking walls are made of flint with brick dressings, consisting of two walls that are approximately 30 meters long and vary in height, curving forward along the road. There are two tall square brick end piers and lower brick piers at intervals, all featuring banded flint rustication and topped with flint obelisk finials. An archway once existed between the two lodges.
Local climate
Two Entrance Lodges, Gates, and Flanking Walls Approximately 300 Metres to North East of Purley Hall 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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