Gloucester Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Lodge and gateway.
Gloucester Lodge
- WRENN ID
- buried-turret-ash
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Lodge and gateway
- Address
- Gloucester Lodge, Lullington
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 518
- Coordinates
- 51.26543, -2.30773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gloucester Lodge is an early 19th-century lodge and gateway, constructed from random rubble and dressed stone with slate roofs. It features an embattled mock military gateway that includes a lodge and semi-circular curtain walls, which enclose a forecourt and end in gate piers that match the overall style. The central gateway has a broad depressed arch, flanked by octagonal towers. On either side of these towers are window openings, with one bay on the left and two bays on the right, across two floors. The windows are two-light stone-mullioned with stopped labels and glazing bar casements.
To the left is an embattled three-storey tower with a single light opening on each floor, featuring leaded lights. Inside the central archway, there is plaster vaulting designed to imitate stone, with a three-bay arcade on each side, each arch having a pointed head and four heraldic shields positioned above. The central gateway is adorned with paired wooden latticework gates resembling a portcullis, and there are heraldic achievements above the arch along with a whimsical datestone marked "1485". The embattled curtain walls have two small circular towers on each side, enclosing a wide forecourt area, while machicolated towers at the roadside create "giant" gate piers. Additional sections of rubble wall extend 5 meters to the south and 33 meters to the north.
Local climate
Gloucester Lodge receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
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