The Woodlands is a Grade II* listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1960. A C18 Hunting lodge, house. 1 related planning application.
The Woodlands
- WRENN ID
- narrow-spire-moon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rugby
- Constituency
- Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1960
- Type
- Hunting lodge, house
- Address
- The Woodlands, Combe Fields, CV3 2AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 388 790
- Coordinates
- 52.40763, -1.43014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woodlands is a late 18th-century hunting lodge that has been converted into a house, with some 19th-century additions. It is likely designed by Capability Brown. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with some brick and features slate and lead roofs with ashlar stacks. The layout includes a complex plan with a polygonal wing on the left, a central range, and a projecting cross-wing on the right.
The lodge is two storeys high and has a five-window range. A 20th-century plank door is set within a hexagonal porch that has a wooden cornice with modillions. The ground floor of the left polygonal range features 12-pane unhorned sash windows, as do the right side of the door and the front of the right wing. There is one blind window on the right facade of the wing. The first floor of the polygonal range has 9-pane unhorned sash windows, while those in the main range and right wing have keyblocks. The building also has a plinth and a band at the first-floor level, along with a stone modillion eaves cornice.
Inside, there are some panelled and some plank doors, and one chamfered beam with an ogee stop.
Local climate
The Woodlands receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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