Tisbury Lodge with Gates and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Tisbury Lodge with Gates and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- wild-soffit-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Tisbury Lodge with Gates and Gate Piers, Fonthill Gifford, SP3 6QS
- OS grid reference
- ST 930 309
- Coordinates
- 51.07826, -2.10072
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tisbury Lodge, built in 1860 by William Burn for the Marquess of Westminster, serves as the lodge to Fonthill Abbey. It is constructed from limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof featuring coped verges and ashlar stacks, designed in an L-plan. The building showcases a Scottish baronial style that complements Fonthill Abbey, which was also designed by Burn and demolished in 1955.
The lodge is a single storey with an attic and includes two sash windows. A 20th-century timber porch is attached to a stone porch that has a 4-pane sash window. To the right, there is a cylindrical tower with narrow round-headed lights and a conical roof adorned with corbelled eaves and a finial. The left side facing the drive features a canted bay with 6-pane and 4-pane sashes, and a 6-pane sash on the first floor displaying the carved heraldic arms of the Marquess of Westminster.
At the rear, there is a lean-to extension from the 1960s with sashes, and to the left, a two-storey wing with additional sashes. All sash windows are set in roll-moulded architraves with rounded corners. Inside the porch, the original planked front door with ornamental hinges is preserved, along with a stair turret that features a stone newel staircase.
To the left of the lodge are two pairs of square limestone gate piers topped with obelisk or ball finials, flanked by wrought-iron scrolled gates and dwarf walls on either side.
Local climate
Tisbury Lodge with Gates and Gate Piers receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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