Lodge of Royal Wolverhampton School is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1977. Lodge.
Lodge of Royal Wolverhampton School
- WRENN ID
- empty-bronze-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1977
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge of Royal Wolverhampton School, Penn Road, City of Wolverhampton
- OS grid reference
- SO 906 971
- Coordinates
- 52.57211, -2.13943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge of Royal Wolverhampton School, also known as No. 163 Penn Road, is a building constructed in 1863 by Joseph Manning. It is located on the east side of Penn Road in Wolverhampton. The lodge is built of brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with an ashlar stack. It is a single-storey structure with a three-window range, designed in the Elizabethan style.
The building has an ashlar plinth and a top cornice, with a coped gable and quoins. The windows are two-light double-chamfered-mullioned, except for the left end, which has a canted bay window with a pierced parapet and a gable above. All windows have decorative glazing. Between the two-light windows is an ashlar porch that has a shaped gable, inscribed with an escutcheon that reads: "ROYAL/ ORPHANAGE/ FOUNDED/ 1850." The entrance features sidelights and paired half-glazed doors. The return windows have cross casements with shouldered lintels, and the right return to the street includes a coped gable over the canted bay. The rear of the lodge has a gabled wing, a 20th-century extension, and a stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lodge of Royal Wolverhampton School receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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