East Lodge at Main Entrance to Abbey Park is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1997. Lodge.
East Lodge at Main Entrance to Abbey Park
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-bonework-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- East Lodge at Main Entrance to Abbey Park, 2, Abbey Park Road, City of Leicester, LE4 5AQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 589 058
- Coordinates
- 52.64706, -1.13065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Lodge at the main entrance to Abbey Park is a lodge built in 1882, designed by James Tait. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features timber-framing. The building has plain tile hipped roofs and two reduced brick stacks.
The exterior is a single storey with attics. The park-facing front includes a projecting off-centre gabled wing with a three-light casement window, which is situated above jettied timber-framing that has a six-light casement window. To the left, there is a single-light casement window, followed by a single external stack. The north-west front features a central square bay window with a five-light transom and mullion window, flanked by single side lights. Above this is a five-light mullion window with single side lights, topped with battlements. To the left, there is a set-back corner porch with a segment arched doorway that has a panelled door. The street front has a central projecting square bay with a three-light window, and above it, there is a timber-framed upper floor with five single-light casement windows, each with pargetting panels above. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
East Lodge at Main Entrance to Abbey Park receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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