Lodge and Gatepiers at the Main Entrance to the North Wales Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 April 1994. Lodge.

Lodge and Gatepiers at the Main Entrance to the North Wales Hospital

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 April 1994
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
SJ 052 652
Coordinates
53.17552, -3.41926
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Lodge and Gatepiers at the Main Entrance to the North Wales Hospital is a two-storey structure built from snecked grey-brown stone, featuring slate roofs and stone chimneys. The front elevation faces east and is gabled, showcasing a square bay and two windows on each floor. To the right, there is a bay with a hipped roof and three windows on each floor. The south elevation includes steps leading up to a Tudor-arched entrance, with a stair tower to the left that has windows on the ground floor and first floor. The north elevation has two gables, with the left one recessed; each gable contains two windows on the first floor, and there is a chimney to the left of the right gable. On the ground floor to the right, there is a gabled porch with a Tudor-arched entrance doorway, and to the left, a conservatory.

Flanking the entrance to the hospital and connected to the lodge on the right by a rubble wall are the entrance gatepiers. The larger inner piers are octagonal with bell-like capstones and are linked by low coped ashlar walls to the lower outer piers, which are square with chamfered corners and feature more elaborate bell-like capstones.

Local climate

Lodge and Gatepiers at the Main Entrance to the North Wales Hospital sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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