Entrance Lodge and Screen Walls Approximately 150 Metres North East of Woburn Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Lodge.

Entrance Lodge and Screen Walls Approximately 150 Metres North East of Woburn Abbey

WRENN ID
salt-granite-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1987
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
SP 965 326
Coordinates
51.98437, -0.59518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance lodge and flanking screen walls, located approximately 150 meters northeast of Woburn Abbey, were likely built around 1790 by Henry Holland for Francis, the 5th Duke of Bedford. The structure is made of ashlar with a slate roof and features a small, single-storeyed octagonal design topped with a shallow pyramidal roof.

On the north elevation, each facet has a shallow round-arched recess that contains a sash window with glazing bars. The building is adorned with moulded impost bands, arch surrounds, and foliate console bracket keystones, while the plinth and eaves cornice are made of a lighter stone than the main body of the structure. A moulded double chimney stack is positioned at the roof apex.

The lodge is flanked by two carriage entrances, connected by equal stretches of screen wall. The right-hand screen wall is divided into three bays by pilasters, with the central bay featuring a segmental-headed pedestrian doorway with panelled double doors, and the outer bays displaying raised rectangular panels. The left-hand screen wall is similar but has a blind doorway in the central bay. The carriage gateways are marked by rusticated piers with moulded bases and caps, crafted from the same white stone as the cottage dressings. Solid timber double gates, each consisting of two moulded panels, complete the entrances. The piers are topped with decorative metal lamps. Additionally, a stretch of screen wall adjoins the right-hand pier of the right gateway, extending southwards for approximately 10 meters.

Local climate

Entrance Lodge and Screen Walls Approximately 150 Metres North East of Woburn Abbey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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