Lodge to Melchbourne Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1974. Lodge.
Lodge to Melchbourne Park
- WRENN ID
- slow-solder-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1974
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge to Melchbourne Park, Swineshead Road, Riseley
- OS grid reference
- TL 047 635
- Coordinates
- 52.26017, -0.46732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge to Melchbourne Park, built in 1832 by Henry Garling for Lord St. John, is a Grade II listed building. It features ashlar stonework and a roof covered with limestone tiles. The main wing is two stories high, flanked by single-story wings on three sides, all designed in a Neo-Tudor style.
On the south elevation, the left-hand block includes a two-light casement window. The central block has a canted bay on the ground floor and a two-light casement window with a label above it on the first floor, topped with a carved plaque displaying the St. John arms. The right-hand block features a gabled porch with a four-centred doorhead and entrance, which has a moulded dripstone and stops, along with a Neo-Tudor chimney stack at the rear. The gables are adorned with decorated bargeboards and drop finials.
The west elevation includes a chimney stack with a datestone. There is also a 20th-century flat-roofed extension on the west side.
Local climate
Lodge to Melchbourne 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 96% 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 52% 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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