North Lodges Lulworth Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. A C18 Gate lodges and gateway.

North Lodges Lulworth Castle

WRENN ID
still-keystone-ebony
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1984
Type
Gate lodges and gateway
Address
North Lodges Lulworth Castle, Coombe Keynes
OS grid reference
SY 848 833
Coordinates
50.64957, -2.21592
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

North Lodges at Lulworth Castle are gate lodges and a gateway built in 1785. The walls are made of ashlar stone on a brick backing, and the lodges have 20th-century concrete roofs. They are two storeys tall, triangular in shape, with rounded turrets at the corners. The design is in the Gothic style, inspired by Lulworth Castle. There is a moulded string course at the first-floor level and a moulded cornice beneath an embattled parapet. The main windows have two lights, each featuring a 4-centred head within a square surround. The doorways, located in the northwest walls, also have 4-centred heads. The turrets include loop-lights that are trefoiled at both the top and bottom. Few internal fittings remain. The gateway has two narrow openings with segmental heads on either side of the main gates, which are plain wrought iron and hung from rectangular piers. These piers have round-headed niches below oval panels that display the weld arms and the date. The site is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Local climate

North Lodges Lulworth Castle receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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