Gate Piers, Gates and Entrance Screen at Lower Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1968. Gate pier.
Gate Piers, Gates and Entrance Screen at Lower Lodge
- WRENN ID
- errant-grate-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1968
- Type
- Gate pier
- Address
- Gate Piers, Gates and Entrance Screen at Lower Lodge, Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 453 533
- Coordinates
- 50.3595, -4.17505
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, gates, and entrance screen at Lower Lodge date from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with some 20th-century elements. They are made of granite, with cast and wrought iron features. A long stretch of railings sits on a dwarf wall, forming a screen at the entrance to Mount Edgcumbe Park. There is a pier at each end of the railings, with gates on the right and a terminal pier also on the right, which includes a small foot gate at the end.
The dwarf wall supports spearhead railings, and to the left stands a large rusticated granite pier with a square plan, set on a moulded plinth, topped with a cornice, cap, necking, and a ball finial. A buttress with a large moulded granite volute is also present. A similar pier is located to the right of the carriage gates, while the pier to the left of the gates is a 20th-century copy in brown granite without a buttress. The double iron carriage gates are accompanied by a small foot gate that leads to Lower Lodge. Most of the ironwork is from the 20th century. This entrance serves as the access point to Mount Edgcumbe Park from Plymouth via the Cremyll ferry, and the piers are styled similarly to the Triumphal Arch at Higher Lodge.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Gates and Entrance Screen at Lower Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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