Top Lodge, to Turvey House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Lodge.
Top Lodge, to Turvey House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-trefoil-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Top Lodge, to Turvey House, Carlton Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 528
- Coordinates
- 52.16568, -0.62509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Lodge, to Turvey House, is a building originally constructed as a one-storey stone structure, which was later altered in the 19th century to become the current lodge building featuring one storey and attics. The heightening of the building was done in red brick. It has a slate roof with stone gable coping, moulded kneelers, and finials, and is designed in an L-plan.
The projecting gabled wing to the east includes an attic with a two-light casement window that has glazing bars and is situated under a drip mould. There is a similar window on the ground floor. A window of the same style is located to the south of this wing in the main section of the building. To the north, there is a one-storey brick porch with a parapet, featuring a gabled doorhood supported by moulded brackets and adorned with cusped fretwork bargeboards. The south gable end has a 20th-century attic window and a ground floor canted bay window.
Local climate
Top Lodge, to Turvey House 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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