Port Lympne North Lodge, Wall and Gate Pier is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Gate lodge.
Port Lympne North Lodge, Wall and Gate Pier
- WRENN ID
- second-storey-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Port Lympne North Lodge, Wall and Gate Pier, Aldington Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 106 352
- Coordinates
- 51.07808, 1.00535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Port Lympne North Lodge, wall and gate pier is a gate lodge built around 1912, likely designed by Sir Herbert Baker for Sir Philip Sassoon. The structure is made of red brick and features a plain tile roof. It is 1½ storeys tall, sitting on a low brick plinth. The brickwork is indented at the corners to mimic rusticated quoins, and the gables are shaped with brick copings. A central brick ridge stack has a moulded cornice. Each gable end contains one two-light casement window on each floor, with moulded brick hoodmoulds; the upper window's hoodmould is shaped to suggest a triangular pediment, while the lower window's is horizontal. The elevation facing the drive has two two-light casement windows on the ground floor, also with horizontal hoodmoulds. There is a central half-glazed door to the drive, set within a rectangular bolection-moulded stone architrave that features a keystone and a segmental pediment on consoles. The initials "P.S." are displayed on the gable ends. A wall with a dipped top extends south from the east gable end to a brick gate-pier, which has rusticated brick quoins and a moulded brick plinth and cornice, topped with a stone pineapple. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Port Lympne North Lodge, Wall and Gate Pier receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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