North Lodge at Oscott College is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 2020. Lodge.
North Lodge at Oscott College
- WRENN ID
- swift-beam-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Erdington MP: Paulette Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 2020
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- North Lodge at Oscott College, College Road, B23 5YE
- OS grid reference
- SP 098 942
- Coordinates
- 52.54632, -1.85612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Lodge at Oscott College is a lodge built in 1838 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. It is constructed of brick with a tile roof and features stone surrounds around the window and door openings.
The lodge has a rectangular plan, with its public facade facing roughly north. The external gate is set within a deeply-moulded stone surround and is flanked by buttresses on either side. The timber gates are adorned with ironwork. Above the gates, there is a stringcourse and two windows, each with two lights and mouchette tracery, both featuring hoodmoulds. Between the windows is an ornate niche containing a carved figure of the Virgin Mary, with a carved angel figure at the base and a pedestal for the statue above. Posts on either side support a cusped hood, which is decorated with carved ballflowers leading up to an ornately carved finial. There are three crosses incorporated into the brickwork above.
The elevation facing the college grounds includes a large traceried window above the carriage arch, flanked by the initials 'TW' in the brickwork on each side. The lower wing to the west features paired windows in square surrounds on each floor.
Inside, access to the lodge is through a door located within the carriage arch. The interior includes a plain timber stair with chamfered newel posts and some original doors. The large room above the arch has an exposed timber truss at its center.
Local climate
North Lodge at Oscott College receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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