South Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Lodge.
South Lodge
- WRENN ID
- secret-groin-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- South Lodge, Ampthill Road, Shefford, Campton and Chicksands, SG17 5PP
- OS grid reference
- TL 126 386
- Coordinates
- 52.03504, -0.35951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Lodge is an entrance lodge belonging to Chicksands Priory, built in 1862 for George Robert Osborn, the sixth Baronet. The building features coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and a clay tile roof. It has a T-plan layout, is one storey high with attics, and is almost identical to the East Lodge.
On the east elevation, the left block has a ground floor window with mullions and a transom, while the right gable features a two-light mullioned window in the attic. Both windows are leaded and have moulded labels. The right gable also has a four-centred arched door, which is sheltered by a gabled open porch that includes turned timber balusters and foliate carving at the apex.
Local climate
South Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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