The Stone Lodge, and the Gatehouse, with Gatepiers and Gates is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1979. Lodge, gateway. 3 related planning applications.
The Stone Lodge, and the Gatehouse, with Gatepiers and Gates
- WRENN ID
- fallow-spandrel-khaki
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1979
- Type
- Lodge, gateway
- Address
- The Stone Lodge, and the Gatehouse, with Gatepiers and Gates, Deer Park, Milton Abbas, DT11 0AY
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 029
- Coordinates
- 50.82582, -2.2772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stone Lodge and the Gatehouse, with gatepiers and gates, form a pair of lodges at a former entrance to a deer park, probably dating from around 1775 and designed by Sir William Chambers. The lodges are constructed of ashlar stone with low-pitched slate roofs, featuring pediments with dentil cornices and simple moulded architraves, and are square in plan. Each lodge has two storeys. Each elevation features a round-arched window with glazing bars flanked by smaller fixed windows, creating a rudimentary Venetian style. Casement windows with glazing bars are also present on the inner side walls, one on each floor. The elevation facing the park has a panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight containing ornamental glazing on the ground floor, and a casement with glazing bars on the first floor. A single-storey extension from the 20th century is located on the left side of The Stone Lodge (when viewed from the drive), built of flint and stone bonding. The adjoining wall is plastered with a concrete slate roof. The Gatehouse has a 19th-century extension on its right side, extended in the 20th century, constructed from brick and flint banding, partly slate-hung, with a hipped tiled roof.
Originally, the lodges contained one room on each floor, with access to the upper floors provided by cast iron spiral staircases. A pair of square ashlar stone gatepiers connect the lodges via upswept ashlar stone walls. The gatepiers have dentil cornices and caps with ball finials, and semi-circular niches facing the drive. The ornamental iron gates feature a U-shaped top rail and arrow-head tops to the uprights.
Local climate
The Stone Lodge, and the Gatehouse, with Gatepiers and Gates receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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