The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House.
The Lodge
- WRENN ID
- winding-threshold-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Lodge, 78, High Street, Melbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 380 444
- Coordinates
- 52.08152, 0.01352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge is a house built around 1830. It features a grey brick front wall with side and rear walls made of more randomly colored brick. The roof is hipped and covered with Welsh slate, and it has boarded wood eaves cornice. The house has a double pile plan and is two storeys high. The symmetrical three-bay facade includes recessed hung sashes with margin lights. A Doric portico made of brick and plaster, with a flat roof and leaded design, leads to the central doorway, which has a round-headed arch, panelled double doors, and a fanlight. Inside, there is an open string staircase with stick balusters and a mahogany rail, a marble fireplace, and moulded cornices. The house features elliptical and round-headed arches connecting the front and rear parts on both the ground and first floors. In 1842, John Hitch owned and occupied the house.
Local climate
The 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 97% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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