Main Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. A C19 Lodge cottage. 1 related planning application.

Main Lodge

WRENN ID
upper-moulding-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1985
Type
Lodge cottage
Address
Main Lodge, High Street, Old Warden, SG18 9EB
OS grid reference
TL 139 440
Coordinates
52.08346, -0.33845
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Main Lodge is a lodge cottage belonging to Old Warden Park, built in 1874 by Henry Clutton for Joseph Shuttleworth. It is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and features a tiled roof. The building has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and is designed in the Jacobean style.

On the north elevation, there is a central half-canted porch with a segmental arched entrance that has a moulded surround and label, flanked by single lights on the side elevations. To the left, there is a two-light window that wraps around the corner to provide a single light to the east gable end. The parapet features square-headed arcading. The east gable end has single lights in both ground floor corners and a four-light window in the attic, topped with stone coping and a finial. The west gable end is similar to the east but has a four-light window at ground level instead of single lights. All windows have a three-centred head for each light and are adorned with moulded labels that merge into the wall at the stops. Each elevation has a stone band at the level of the hood mould and a moulded cornice at the first floor sill level. There is a rebuilt triple stack with diagonal shafts on the south elevation, along with a flat-roofed addition to the south.

Local climate

Main Lodge 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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