Lodge to Turvey Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Lodge.
Lodge to Turvey Hall
- WRENN ID
- fossil-nave-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge to Turvey Hall, Newton Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 940 518
- Coordinates
- 52.15735, -0.6262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodge to Turvey Hall, built in the mid-19th century, features pebbledashed render on brick and an old clay tile roof. It is designed in an L-plan and consists of one storey with attics. The building showcases carved bargeboards and drop finials. On the north elevation, the left side has a projecting wing with a large gabled, open-sided porch supported by baluster posts. The west wing includes an attic gabled oriel window with a pointed arched lattice casement. The ground floor has a 5-light lattice casement window with pointed arched timber mullions. On the west gable end, there is a stone recessed panel displaying the arms of the Higgins family, along with a canted bay window on the ground floor featuring a scalloped timber valance.
Local climate
Lodge to Turvey Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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