Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 February 1991. Lodge.
Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall
- WRENN ID
- winding-loft-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1991
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall, Mold, Northop
- OS grid reference
- SJ 243 679
- Coordinates
- 53.20365, -3.1338
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall is a two-storey lodge built in the Tudor-Gothic style, showcasing a distinctive variety of materials and details. The first floor is half-timbered, while the ground floor is constructed from red brick, resting on a rubble plinth. The slate roof features tiled cresting and overhanging eaves, with red brick stacks, one of which is octagonal.
The lodge has stone-framed windows on the ground floor, with leaded quarry glazing. It has an L-shaped plan, with the main range oriented east-west, a northern wing, and a porch at the angle facing north. The open timber porch has a hipped slate roof that extends from the main roof, featuring a timber handrail with decorative work below and a boarded door. To the right of the porch is a low hipped roof over a first-floor two-light casement window. The main roof continues to the right over a two-light ground floor window with plain glazing, while a small two-light window is set down to the left.
The east gable end displays close-studded timbering on the first floor, with pargetting on a Gothic-carved jetty bressumer that features inscribed floral ornamentation. At the apex, there is a finial with a 'B' (Bankes) monogram above an imitation hammerbeam roof truss. The gable contains a three-light casement window. Centrally located on the ground floor is a three-light window with round-headed lights and colonnettes. The ground floor also features splayed angles with single round-headed lights, large keystones, and stained glass. A freestone band connects the east window with these corner windows.
The first floor's close-studding wraps around the south side, also adorned with pargetting, extending to a central stepped chimney breast that has ribbed ornamentation on the stack. To the left of the stack, the roof continues over a two-light ground floor window, which also has round-headed lights and a colonnette. The rear of the lodge has simple windows and a central boarded door, with a low brick-walled yard that includes a privy at one corner.
Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection.
Local climate
Lower Lodge to Soughton Hall receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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