The Old Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1999. Gate lodge. 1 related planning application.

The Old Lodge

WRENN ID
last-ember-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gedling
Constituency
Gedling MP: Michael Payne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1999
Type
Gate lodge
Address
The Old Lodge, Bestwood Lodge Drive, St. Albans
OS grid reference
SK 571 462
Coordinates
53.01052, -1.14918
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Lodge is a gate lodge built around 1820, with a small addition from the 20th century. It is constructed of painted and rendered brick, featuring painted stone dressings and a shallow hipped slate roof. The building has two painted and rendered brick chimney stacks and is a single storey with a deep painted stone plinth. The main front has a central doorway with a 20th-century half-glazed door set within a painted ashlar door surround. On either side of the doorway are single 2-light windows with iron frame lattice casements. The left side has one additional 2-light window with similar iron frame lattice casements, while the right side has two matching windows. The rear elevation includes a central doorway flanked by single windows.

Local climate

The Old Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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