Castle Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Lodge.
Castle Lodge
- WRENN ID
- vacant-gable-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Castle Lodge, A350, West Ashton
- OS grid reference
- ST 881 566
- Coordinates
- 51.30842, -2.1719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Lodge is a detached house that originally served as the lodge for Rood Ashton House. It was built in the early 19th century for the Long family. The structure is made of limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and features stone stacks. Its design reflects a Gothic fantasy style to complement Rood Ashton House.
The building is two stories high with an attic and has four windows. The central entrance consists of double doors set within a large chamfered Tudor-arched carriage opening. To the left of the entrance is a leaded oriel window, and to the right is a lancet window. On the first floor, there is a 2-light mullioned casement window with a hoodmould to the left, a lancet window to the right, and another 2-light mullioned casement window above the archway, which features the heraldic Arms of Longs carved on three shields.
A cylindrical turret is located at the right corner, adorned with lancet windows and a corbelled battlemented parapet. To the left side, there is a square tower with lancet windows and a blind cross arrow loop, also topped with a corbelled battlemented parapet. Additionally, there are single and two-storey bays to the left that include mullioned casement windows. This lodge may have been constructed around the time of the 1836 alterations to the main house by the architect Thomas Hopper, and it is possible that he designed it.
Local climate
Castle Lodge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
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