Pair of Lodges with Attached Walls at the North Entrance to Lanhydrock Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1988. A C18 Lodge.

Pair of Lodges with Attached Walls at the North Entrance to Lanhydrock Park

WRENN ID
crooked-pilaster-thistle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1988
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
SX 088 646
Coordinates
50.4502, -4.69408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pair of lodges with attached walls at the north entrance to Lanhydrock Park likely dates from the late 18th century, with enlargements made around the early to mid-19th century and few later alterations. They are constructed from granite ashlar and slatestone rubble, featuring hipped slate roofs and outer stacks with rubble shafts. Originally, the lodges were a symmetrical pair of one-room plans with a gateway between them, each heated from an outer stack and with entrances on the inner sides. Around 1840, a one-room addition was added to the outer side of each lodge, also heated from the outer side.

Each lodge is two stories tall and symmetrical, with a plinth and a large recessed blind arch supported by pilasters and imposts. The pilasters and spandrels of the arch are made of ashlar, while the rear is in rubble masonry. Both the ground and first floors feature a 2-light casement window with a 4-centred arch, Y-tracery, and a relieving arch. The smaller two-story additions on each side also have similar 2-light casements on both floors.

The central gateway is flanked by engaged square granite piers, with an inner pair of square granite piers featuring panels and pyramidal caps, standing about 1.5 meters high. This creates a central carriage gateway, with pedestrian gateways on each side that have 20th-century wooden gates. Each lodge has a short section of rubble wall swept forward on the outer side, topped with granite coping and square terminal piers in granite ashlar with pyramidal caps. The inner side of each lodge includes a 4-centred arched doorway with a plank door and a relieving arch, as well as a blind 4-centred arched window on the first floor. At the rear, each lodge has the same 2-light casement at both levels and a 4-centred arched plank door. Additionally, there is a small single-storey service room addition on the outer side of each lodge, likely from the late 19th century. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Pair of Lodges with Attached Walls at the North Entrance to Lanhydrock Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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