Marlborough Lodge and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1973. Lodge.

Marlborough Lodge and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
riven-tin-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 June 1973
Type
Lodge
Address
Marlborough Lodge and Gate Piers, London Road, Devizes
OS grid reference
SU 014 621
Coordinates
51.35873, -1.98038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marlborough Lodge, built around 1800, serves as the lodge to Roundway Park. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a low slate roof, with a single storey design. The lodge has a projecting portico facing the former drive to Roundway Park, supported by four paired columns, and is adorned with an entablature and balustrade. There are single pilaster responds and a half-glazed door framed in an architrave. The entablature continues on either side, leading to a parapet that returns on the end walls. The end walls are accentuated by a projecting pediment on angle piers, which frame a Venetian window with blank side-lights and a central sash window.

At the rear, a wing has an entablature and balustrade on its south side, above a 12-pane sash window set in a recessed panel, complete with an architrave and cornice. Flanking the entrance to Roundway Park are two ornate oval rusticated gate piers, each featuring a fluted band beneath a corniced cap and raised piers with scroll tops on all four sides, with the cornice breaking forward over the scrolls. Each pier is topped with a large rounded urn finial on a heavy stepped base. An original ashlar base for iron railings extends from the east pier to the lodge, which is connected to a rusticated corniced pier. Roundway Park House, which has since been demolished, was constructed between 1777 and 1783 by James Wyatt for J. Sutton.

Local climate

Marlborough Lodge and Gate Piers receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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