West Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Lodge.

West Lodge

WRENN ID
bitter-sill-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Lodge
Address
West Lodge, A689, Wolsingham
OS grid reference
NZ 116 355
Coordinates
54.71511, -1.82138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Lodge is a lodge for Harperley Hall, built around 1820, with a porch added in the mid-19th century. The building is rendered and features painted ashlar dressings, a Welsh slate roof with fishscale tiles over the porch, and yellow brick chimneys. It has an L-plan layout and is a single storey with two windows facing the road. There is a renewed door on the left and paired casements with lattice glazing set in a lozenge-headed raised stone surround. The projecting right bay has a similar window flanked by canted corners. The left bay of the main range has similarly shaped ends, while the right bay contains a steeply-pitched porch that faces the drive. The porch features a partly-glazed door with chamfered panels under a flat stone lintel. Its walls, which have steeply-sloped coping, support chamfered posts of a boarded gable. The low-pitched roof is hipped over all three canted ends and has ridge chimneys with yellow pots.

Local climate

West Lodge receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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