Clifton Lodge with Gates and Gatepiers to South-East is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Country house lodge.
Clifton Lodge with Gates and Gatepiers to South-East
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2002
- Type
- Country house lodge
- Address
- Clifton Lodge with Gates and Gatepiers to South-East, Flax Bourton Road, Wraxall and Failand
- OS grid reference
- ST 518 710
- Coordinates
- 51.43655, -2.69417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clifton Lodge, along with its gates and gatepiers to the southeast, is a country house estate lodge built around the late 19th century. It features snecked stone with freestone dressings and has a clay plain tile gabled roof adorned with ornate ridge tiles and finials. The roof has overhanging verges supported by arch-braces and hammer-beams on small corbelled braces. There are brick axial stacks with stone strings and corbelled caps topped with yellow clay pots, all designed in the Victorian Gothic style.
The lodge is a single storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical two-bay front facing northeast. The right side has a projecting gable with a large stone canted bay window that includes quatrefoil top lights and a stone canopy, along with a two-light stone mullion window above it. The roof on the left side slopes down to low eaves over a now-blocked doorway that has a moulded shouldered frame, accompanied by a weathered buttress on the left corner.
The southeast return, which faces the drive, features an asymmetrical gable with lower eaves on the right, a large stone bay window with a stone canopy, a small two-light window to the right, and a larger two-light window above in the gable. The southwest elevation has a large gable with low eaves, while the northwest elevation displays a narrow gable over a cambered arch doorway that now has a late 20th-century glazed door, with the roof on the right side sloping down to low eaves over small single-light windows. The windows are iron casements.
Inside, there is a winding mechanism in the parlour for opening and closing the drive gate, although it is reportedly not in working order. Clifton Lodge is part of a series of Victorian lodges at Tyntesfield, complete with its gate and gatepiers.
Local climate
Clifton Lodge with Gates and Gatepiers to South-East receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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