The Lodge at Workshops for the Blind is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. Caretaker's house. 1 related planning application.
The Lodge at Workshops for the Blind
- WRENN ID
- cold-brick-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Caretaker's house
- Address
- The Lodge at Workshops for the Blind, Margaret Road, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 610 040
- Coordinates
- 52.63082, -1.09964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge at Workshops for the Blind is a caretaker's house built between 1922 and 1923 by Searle and Riley for the Leicestershire and Rutland Institution for the Blind. It is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof and brick end stacks, designed in the Vernacular Revival style. The building has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys high. The internal angle of the L features a canted brick porch with a pentice roof. There are casement windows above and to the left and right on both floors. The left gable end has a stack and casements, while the right gable end has a four-light casement on both floors with a side stack to the right.
The Lodge is situated close to the Workshops for the Blind and is part of a significant group of buildings established for the blind by the Wycliffe Society. This group includes Hunter Lodge, Wycliffe Hall (now the Sam Cooper Day Centre), and 65-75 Gedding Road, along with the Workshops and this Lodge. These buildings reflect the ideals of the Wycliffe Society as outlined in Edwin Crew's 1912 book, "City of the Blind at Leicester."
Local climate
The Lodge at Workshops for the Blind 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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