Entrance Lodge to Devonport High School for Boys is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. Entrance lodge.
Entrance Lodge to Devonport High School for Boys
- WRENN ID
- stranded-footing-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP: Luke Pollard (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- Entrance lodge
- Address
- Entrance Lodge to Devonport High School for Boys, Paradise Road, City of Plymouth, PL1 5QP
- OS grid reference
- SX 462 549
- Coordinates
- 50.3742, -4.16351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance lodge to Devonport High School for Boys is a building from the late 18th century or early 19th century, originally part of a former military hospital. It is constructed from coursed Plymouth limestone, with a roof that is concealed behind a moulded parapet entablature. The lodge has a small rectangular plan and is a single storey with a symmetrical front featuring two windows. The windows have dressed stone architraves and are blocked, while there is a single panel door at the central doorway. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Entrance Lodge to Devonport High School for Boys 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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