South Lodge to Abbey Park at Slater Street Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1997. Lodge.
South Lodge to Abbey Park at Slater Street Entrance
- WRENN ID
- roaming-pillar-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- South Lodge to Abbey Park at Slater Street Entrance, Abbey Park Road, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 585 053
- Coordinates
- 52.64313, -1.1365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Lodge to Abbey Park at the Slater Street entrance is a lodge built in 1882, designed by James Tait. It features red brick construction with ashlar dressings and timber-framing that includes brick nogging. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, complemented by brick stacks.
The lodge is a single storey with attics. The north-west front has a slightly projecting gabled wing on the left, which includes a boarded 3-light casement window and another similar 3-light window above it, adorned with tile hanging. To the right, there is a tall 2-light boarded casement window set within a framed section featuring brick herring-bone nogging, while a single light window with an ashlar surround is located at the left corner.
On the south-west entrance front, there is a square bay window with brick nogging and a boarded 4-light window, situated above a timber-framed oriel window that has a 5-light casement in a tile-hung gable. A porch with a segment arched doorway and a panel door is positioned at the left corner. The north-east front features a corner window with an ashlar surround to the right, followed by a tall external brick stack and a timber-framed gable that includes a bell canopy. Below this, there is more timber-framing with a 2-light boarded casement window and tile hanging above. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
South Lodge to Abbey Park at Slater Street Entrance 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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