The Gate Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1976. Gate lodge.
The Gate Lodge
- WRENN ID
- late-chapel-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1976
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- The Gate Lodge, Selling
- OS grid reference
- TR 031 566
- Coordinates
- 51.27302, 0.91141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gate Lodge is a late 18th-century gate lodge that has been converted into a house. It is possibly designed by Sir John Soane. The building is rendered and features a thatched roof. It has a two-cell plan with a 20th-century porch extension. The lodge is one storey high with an attic and has a verandah that wraps around supported by gnarled and forked tree trunks. The roof is hipped and includes a sunk skylight on the left and a central chimney stack. On the left side, there are two pointed Y-traceried windows and a door leading to the gate, which has a pointed traceried head. There is also a half-door in a small brick extension on the right, featuring a 20th-century wooden casement. The suggested attribution to Soane is based on his construction of stables at Lees Court around 1790, for which this lodge served as the gatehouse.
Local climate
The Gate Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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