Emperors Lodges, Gate Piers, Walls and Railings at South Entrance to Lowther Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1984. Entrance lodges.
Emperors Lodges, Gate Piers, Walls and Railings at South Entrance to Lowther Castle
- WRENN ID
- scarred-thatch-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1984
- Type
- Entrance lodges
- Address
- Emperors Lodges, Gate Piers, Walls and Railings at South Entrance to Lowther Castle, Little Strickland, Eden
- OS grid reference
- NY 549 210
- Coordinates
- 54.58222, -2.69787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Emperor's Lodges, gate piers, walls, and railings at the south entrance to Lowther Castle were built in 1895 for the Earl of Lonsdale. They serve as an entrance to the Emperor's Drive leading to Lowther Castle. The structures are made of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and feature a graduated greenslate roof.
These two-storey, two-bay square lodges have a plinth, quoins, and a battlemented parapet, with off-centre battlemented square towers that project to the rear. The lodges have corniced chimneys at the outer tower corners and at the centre front. The stone-mullioned windows include two-light windows in the outer bays and five-light windows in the full-height canted inner bays, all with original diamond-leaded glazing.
The projecting battlemented porches on the inner returns hold doors with four-centred heads and hoodmoulds, which are also present on the windows, including the round-headed windows in the lower stages of the towers. There are one-storey rear dog-kennel wings.
The gate piers are chamfered stone squares with coved cornices and baronets' coronet finials. Coped dwarf walls support cast iron railings featuring cusped arcaded panels and leafy finials. The lodges were built to commemorate the visit of the German Emperor, whose arms and a commemorative plaque are displayed on the entrance front of the East Lodge.
Local climate
Emperors Lodges, Gate Piers, Walls and Railings at South Entrance to Lowther Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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