Gate Lodge and Entrance Screen to Middleton Park is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Gate lodge, entrance screen. 6 related planning applications.
Gate Lodge and Entrance Screen to Middleton Park
- WRENN ID
- empty-postern-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Gate lodge, entrance screen
- Address
- Gate Lodge and Entrance Screen to Middleton Park, Oxford Road, Middleton Stoney, OX25 4TE
- OS grid reference
- SP 534 234
- Coordinates
- 51.90679, -1.225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate lodge and entrance screen to Middleton Park were built in 1805, with the lodge designed by Blore and the screen possibly by Thomas Cundy, who made alterations to the mansion between 1806 and 1807. The structure is made of coursed squared limestone and ashlar, topped with a Welsh-slate roof. It has a two-shaped plan and is a single storey high.
The lodge features two wings, each adorned with simplified pilasters that support shallow triangular pediments, enclosing a flat-roofed loggia with Doric columns that protect the double-leaf panelled entrance door. The ends of the wings have 6-pane sash windows, and there is a similar wing at the rear of the left wing.
The entrance screen consists of four large, heavily-rusticated ashlar piers that support 19th-century cast-iron gates, with the outer pair topped by ornamental urns featuring leopard handles. The flanking walls are made of rubble and curve outward to plain ashlar piers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gate Lodge and Entrance Screen to Middleton Park 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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
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