Lodge to Bathwick Grange, with Gate Piers and Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Gatehouse.
Lodge to Bathwick Grange, with Gate Piers and Walls
- WRENN ID
- spare-soffit-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Lodge to Bathwick Grange, with Gate Piers and Walls, Bathwick Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 764 644
- Coordinates
- 51.37843, -2.33964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodge to Bathwick Grange, along with its gate piers and walls, was built around 1840 and extended to the west around 1990. The architect was H.E. Goodridge. The structure is made of limestone ashlar with a slate roof.
The lodge is a square block featuring an arcaded projection with two arched windows facing the road. A prominent chimneystack is located above an arched doorway on the east side. There is a moulded stringcourse at the impost level on the front, and a plat band at the entrance front with a moulded hood over the arch. Above the entrance, there is a round window with keystones at the four cardinal points. The first floor has a pair of arched windows with a pedimented gable end above, supported by heavily moulded paired brackets. The extension to the west has been designed to match the original style.
To the right of the lodge, there are a pair of gate piers inscribed in capitals with the name BATHWICK GRANGE, which is the later name of the house. These piers have heavily moulded caps with pediments and paired brackets that match the gatehouse.
The interior has not been inspected. The retaining wall extends under the projecting bay to the pavement level and continues to the right with a coped wall that sweeps to a plain pier. This pier connects to a quadrant that returns to the pair of gate piers, which are cruciform in plan with a high base, lintel, and frieze topped with cross-pedimented cappings on dentils. On the far side of the opening, without gates, the pier is attached to another quadrant of wall that extends to the pavement.
Historically, this lodge was designed by Goodridge to serve as the entrance to his former house, which he sold in 1848, and it showcases his distinctive Italianate style. The later extension was carried out by James Elliott.
Local climate
Lodge to Bathwick Grange, with Gate Piers and Walls receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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