Western Lodge and Grey Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Villa. 1 related planning application.

Western Lodge and Grey Lodge

WRENN ID
crooked-stone-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Villa
Address
Western Lodge and Grey Lodge, Whitesmocks, City of Durham, DH1 4LH
OS grid reference
NZ 260 435
Coordinates
54.78646, -1.59635
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Western Lodge and Grey Lodge is a villa that has been divided into two separate houses. It dates from the early 19th century and incorporates an early 18th-century house in its rear wing. The exterior features incised stucco with a plinth and painted ashlar dressings, while the rear wall of the wing is constructed of English garden wall bond brick. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has rendered chimneys with yellow pots.

The main elevation is two storeys high with three bays on one side and four on the other. Giant pilasters frame the end bays, and the sash windows include glazing bars and projecting stone sills. The left side of the building has an entrance to Grey Lodge with a bracketed hood, while the right side features the main entrance in an Ionic porch and a two-storey square projecting bay under a hipped roof. The low-pitched hipped roof has ridge chimneys topped with octagonal pots. The rear wing contains 16-pane sash windows.

Inside, the villa retains original six-panel doors and architraves, as well as corniced chimney-pieces throughout. The entrance loggia has a tiled floor and arcaded windows. There is a reused early 18th-century staircase with a long flight and a long landing balustrade, featuring a panelled closed string, a moulded panelled handrail on turned balusters, and square newels with half-balusters. The kitchen in the rear wing has moulded beams.

Local climate

Western Lodge and Grey Lodge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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