Lodge to Clapham Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Lodge.
Lodge to Clapham Park
- WRENN ID
- tattered-parapet-moon
- 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 Clapham Park, West Lodge, Carriage Drive, MK41 6EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 043 527
- Coordinates
- 52.16315, -0.47568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Lodge to Clapham Park, built in 1872 by John Usher of Bedford, is the best preserved of the surviving lodges associated with Clapham Park. It is constructed of dark red brick with stone dressings. The building features a hipped roof made of banded plain and fishscale clay tiles, topped with crested ridge tiles and wrought iron finials. The lodge is designed in a T-plan layout, with a right-hand forward projecting wing that has an apsidal end. It includes narrow sash windows, and there is an open-sided porch located in the angle between the wings, supported by a stone column at the south-west corner.
Local climate
Lodge to Clapham Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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