Lodge to Wardown Park is a Grade II listed building in the Luton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1981. Lodge.

Lodge to Wardown Park

WRENN ID
guardian-eave-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Luton
Constituency
Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1981
Type
Lodge
Address
Lodge to Wardown Park, New Bedford Road
OS grid reference
TL 087 229
Coordinates
51.89417, -0.42088
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lodge to Wardown Park, dated around 1878, is a single-storey building with attics constructed from Luton grey bricks, featuring mock timber framing on the gable facing New Bedford Road. It has a clay tile roof adorned with terracotta decorated ridge tiles and moulded finials. Most of the windows are leaded. The west gable end includes a canted bay, and there is a gabled open porch on the south elevation.

Local climate

Lodge to Wardown Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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