Lodge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1964. House.
Lodge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-quartz-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lodge Cottage, Rugeley Road, Armitage with Handsacre
- OS grid reference
- SK 076 162
- Coordinates
- 52.7442, -1.88857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lodge Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the southwest side of Rugeley Road in Armitage with Handsacre. The building is timber framed with brick infill and features a thatched roof with brick ridge stacks. It has a three-cell baffle-entry plan and is aligned north-south, facing east. The cottage is one storey with an attic, showcasing three square panels at the eaves supported by straight braces. The windows are arranged irregularly, with five glazing bar casements on the ground floor and two dormer windows in the attic, which are arched over by the roof. The entrance door is positioned to the left of the center. There is a single-storey lean-to extension on the left side of the cottage. Inside, the cottage features chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.
Local climate
Lodge Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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