Lion Gates and attached Lodges at Chepstow Racecourse (Piercefield Park) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 2001. Gate. 2 related planning applications.

Lion Gates and attached Lodges at Chepstow Racecourse (Piercefield Park)

WRENN ID
dreaming-zinc-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 2001
Type
Gate
OS grid reference
ST 523 945
Coordinates
51.64779, -2.68993
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Lion Gates and attached lodges at Chepstow Racecourse, located in Piercefield Park, are constructed from sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs, while the gates and railings are made of wrought iron. The entrance features double iron gates flanked by tall rusticated ashlar piers, with iron railings on a low stone wall. There are foot doors in stone surrounds, also flanked by railings, and single-bay, two-storey lodges on either side. The gate piers are crowned with couchant lions, which may be made of Coade stone. The foot gates resemble sentry boxes and are set within spike railings on a dwarf wall.

The lodges display quoins and a plat band between the storeys, featuring a 3 over 3 pane sash window below and a 2 over 2 pane casement window above. Each lodge has a pyramid roof with paired eaves brackets and an ashlar stack with a weathered head on the outer wall. The entrances and additional windows are located on the side and rear elevations. The interiors were not observed during the resurvey, but they are described as having a basic two-room layout with a small kitchen outshut.

Local climate

Lion Gates and attached Lodges at Chepstow Racecourse (Piercefield Park) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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