The Lodge and Gatepiers Attached (Pair of Gatepiers and Flanking Lodges) is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1984. Gatepiers and lodges.
The Lodge and Gatepiers Attached (Pair of Gatepiers and Flanking Lodges)
- WRENN ID
- stranded-gable-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1984
- Type
- Gatepiers and lodges
- Address
- The Lodge and Gatepiers Attached (Pair of Gatepiers and Flanking Lodges), Ashford Road, Leeds
- OS grid reference
- TQ 832 541
- Coordinates
- 51.25692, 0.62438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge and Gatepiers attached consist of a pair of gatepiers, each flanked by a lodge, located at the grounds of Leeds Castle. They were built in the early 20th century. The lodges are constructed from roughly coursed stone with ashlar dressings and feature a plain tile roof. They are two storeys high, set on a plinth, and have a plat band and slightly coved stone cornice. Each lodge has a conical roof with a central stone stack. The front and gateway elevations have regular fenestration, with one two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window on each floor. The park elevations include a central first-floor window flanked by smaller two-light frieze windows, and two ground-floor windows without a central one. The central first-floor windows break through the eaves and are topped with deep horizontal stone pediments that are slightly corniced. Each lodge has a small rectangular ground-floor window next to the road side of the gates and features a ribbed door in a rectangular stone architrave, with a rectangular fanlight above. This door is located beneath the central window on the park side of the gates and is accessed by two steps with an iron handrail. Decorative rainwater heads are also present. The interiors have not been inspected. Each lodge is connected to its respective gatepier by an approximately six-foot stretch of wall. The gatepiers are rectangular stone structures with a moulded plinth, a corniced top, vertical fillets on each side, and a scroll between the pier and the wall. Each gatepier is topped with a gadrooned urn.
Local climate
The Lodge and Gatepiers Attached (Pair of Gatepiers and Flanking Lodges) 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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