North Lodge at West Entrance to Stapleford Park is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1968. A C19 Lodge.

North Lodge at West Entrance to Stapleford Park

WRENN ID
narrow-pavement-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Melton
Constituency
Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 January 1968
Type
Lodge
Address
North Lodge at West Entrance to Stapleford Park, Saxby Road, Freeby
OS grid reference
SK 809 182
Coordinates
52.75566, -0.80186
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North Lodge at the west entrance to Stapleford Park is a Grade II listed building, now functioning as a house. It was built in the mid-19th century and has mid-20th century additions. The lodge is constructed from coursed and squared ironstone, featuring limestone ashlar dressings and a thatched roof. It has decorative fretted bargeboards with drops and a coped square stone ridge stack.

The lodge is a single-storey structure with two bays, designed in a T-plan. The south front showcases a central gabled porch that includes a chamfered and moulded Gothic arched doorway with a close boarded door, flanked by small chamfered pointed fixed lights. Beyond the porch, there are single two-light cross mullioned casements with moulded surrounds and flat hoods.

On the west side, there is a casement window, and to the right, a gabled wing with another casement. The east side features a wing on the left with a thatched square bay window and a casement, followed by a plank door. To the right of this, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed addition that includes a re-set triple lancet. This building was originally erected as a lodge for the main entrance to Stapleford Park.

Local climate

North Lodge at West Entrance to Stapleford Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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