South Lodge and Attached Railing, Gatepier and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Lodge.
South Lodge and Attached Railing, Gatepier and Gate
- WRENN ID
- young-rafter-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- South Lodge and Attached Railing, Gatepier and Gate, Castle Ashby Park
- OS grid reference
- SP 862 589
- Coordinates
- 52.22176, -0.73932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Lodge, built around 1800 and extended in the mid-19th century, is a lodge made of limestone ashlar with a pyramidal slate roof and stone lateral stacks. It has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a three-window range. The main front faces the drive and features a central panelled door set in a shallow porch supported by slender Tuscan columns and an entablature. On the ground floor, there are two-light casement windows on either side of the door with segmental-arched heads. The first floor has pointed arch-shaped windows, also with two-light casement windows. The building includes a plinth, pilaster strips at the corners and defining the bays, sill bands, and overhanging bracketed eaves. A large Italianate-style extension was added to the rear in the mid-19th century. The lodge is also referred to as the Gardener's Cottage.
Attached to the lodge is a railing that extends from the left corner to the gate and gatepiers, with similar railing on the other side of the gate. The wrought-iron railings feature ornamented cresting and standards, or low stone-coped walls. The gatepiers are made of plain limestone ashlar with a moulded cornice and ball finials, supporting a modern five-bar timber gate. Inside, the lodge contains a fine mid-18th century fireplace, which likely came from Easton Maudit House.
Local climate
South Lodge and Attached Railing, Gatepier and Gate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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