Entrance Lodge to Clarendon School is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Entrance lodge.
Entrance Lodge to Clarendon School
- WRENN ID
- rusted-parapet-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- Entrance lodge
- Address
- Entrance Lodge to Clarendon School, Haynes
- OS grid reference
- TL 082 411
- Coordinates
- 52.05824, -0.42283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance lodge to Clarendon School, originally part of Hawnes, was built in 1873 for the Reverend Lord John Thynne. It is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features clay tile roofs adorned with decorative ridge cresting. The building has an L-plan layout, is one storey high with attics, and includes mostly mullioned windows, some with cambered heads, many set into pointed-arched recesses that have decorative banding at the tops. The road-facing gable features a canted bay with a tiled sloping roof and a lean-to porch at the angle. A stone band at the first floor level displays inscriptions on each elevation along with some foliate patterning, reading: "JAYE BONNE CAUSE"; "LOYAL DEVOIR"; "FUTURUM INVISIBLE"; "ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLXXXIII"; "DEO PATRIAE AMICIS". The gable ends are decorated with pierced bargeboards and distinctive wrought iron finials shaped like sunflowers.
Local climate
Entrance Lodge to Clarendon School 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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