Lodge and Gatepiers at North Entrance to Cathedral School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1972. Lodge.
Lodge and Gatepiers at North Entrance to Cathedral School
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gateway-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1972
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge and Gatepiers at North Entrance to Cathedral School, the Close, Salisbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 144 294
- Coordinates
- 51.06459, -1.79561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodge and gatepiers at the north entrance to Cathedral School were built in 1843. This single-storey and attic lodge is made of ashlar stone and features a picturesque design with two gabled blocks, one of which is stepped out. The gables have stone copings and kneelers, and the south gable includes a projecting ledged chimney with small offsets. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with scalloped tiles.
On the gable end with the chimney, there is a small rectangular bay with a stone roof and a two-light leaded casement window. The adjoining gable end has a two-light lattice casement window, and above it, there is a stone crown that may be an early fragment that has been reset. The entrance is located on the west side, featuring a pointed arched doorway with a stone gable above that has a date tablet.
Connecting the lodge to the gate pier is a short screen wall that runs at right angles to the lodge, which includes a door and a merlon that is canted over, likely with a reset medieval head. The tall stone gate piers have stepped caps topped with ball finials, and there is a modern wooden gate.
All the listed buildings in The Close form an outstanding group.
Local climate
Lodge and Gatepiers at North Entrance to Cathedral School 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- Wall Running North of Lodge, Parallel with Road
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- Diocesan Registry
- The Deanery
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- 8, The Close