Central Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Lodge.
Central Lodge
- WRENN ID
- still-rotunda-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Central Lodge, Birkenhead Park
- OS grid reference
- SJ 307 891
- Coordinates
- 53.39485, -3.04244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Central Lodge is a lodge located in Birkenhead Park, built around 1840 to 1850, likely designed by Lewis Hornblower and John Robertson. The building is faced with ashlar stone and features a low-pitched concrete tiled roof. It is two stories tall and has a three-window range with a double pile, two-room plan. To the left, there is a single-storey entrance block with a shouldered architrave around the doorway. The main block has a rusticated ashlar ground floor with sash windows that have round-headed upper panes. The upper storey is divided by pilasters and has similar sash windows. A balustraded parapet and fluted finials at the corners, some of which also serve as chimney stacks, complete the design. Central Lodge is part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, which was laid out by Joseph Paxton between 1844 and 1847.
Local climate
Central Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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