West 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.
West Lodge at Main Entrance to Abbey Park
- WRENN ID
- dusted-spindle-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- West Lodge at Main Entrance to Abbey Park, 1, Abbey Park Road, City of Leicester, LE4 5AQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 588 058
- Coordinates
- 52.64723, -1.131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West 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 roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, and there are two reduced brick stacks.
The lodge is a single storey with attics. The park-facing side has a projecting square bay window on the left, which has a chamfered plinth and a 4-light transom and mullion window, along with single-light side windows. Above this is a single 5-light mullion window topped with ashlar battlements. To the right, there is a lean-to bell canopy supported by stone corbels. There is also a single 3-light mullion window and a moulded ashlar entrance on this side.
On the south-east front, there is a projecting gabled wing to the right featuring a 3-light transom and mullion window, and above it, a jettied timber-framed upper floor with a 5-light canted oriel window. To the left, there is another moulded ashlar entrance leading to a corner porch with a set-back segment-arched doorway that has a panelled door. The street front has an additional square bay window topped with battlements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
West 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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