The Lodge and Attached Gatepiers, Gates and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 2002. A Victorian Gate lodge. 43 related planning applications.
The Lodge and Attached Gatepiers, Gates and Railings
- WRENN ID
- rooted-slate-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 2002
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- The Lodge and Attached Gatepiers, Gates and Railings, Church Road, Swindon
- OS grid reference
- SO 936 249
- Coordinates
- 51.92345, -2.09303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 1850s gate lodge, potentially with earlier origins. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof with moulded kneelers to the ashlar copings. Brick stacks have moulded stone capping. The building is in a Tudor Gothic Revival style, with an asymmetrical design and plan.
The east elevation has an ashlar entrance porch with a Surman family badge above the chamfered door surround, which has a label mould and moulded coping, and a studded inner door. The porch is flanked by blank stone loopholes shaped like crosses. The north elevation has a gable facing to the left with a two-light stone cross window with a label mould. A square bay window below has moulded string to the parapet and a similar label mould, with a 1:3:1 fenestration pattern. A gabled dormer window sits above a two-light window on the right, featuring similar fenestration. A single-story service bay to the right has a central doorway with an ashlar surround and an ashlar coping to the parapet. Replacement glazing is present on the south elevation. The interior has not been inspected.
Projecting north from the northwest corner and returning eastwards along the south front, a stone-coped dwarf wall with spear-headed railings and double gates encloses a small garden area. Attached to the east of the railings are two pairs of rusticated ashlar piers flanking ornate pedestrian gates and double carriage gates leading to the entrance drive of Swindon Hall.
This is a well-executed mid-Victorian gate lodge, notable for its studied asymmetry, high-quality detailing and associated railings and gates.
Local climate
The Lodge and Attached Gatepiers, Gates and Railings receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 43 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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