West Lodge and Attached Iron Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Lodge cottage.

West Lodge and Attached Iron Railings and Gate

WRENN ID
haunted-cobalt-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Lodge cottage
Address
West Lodge and Attached Iron Railings and Gate, the Street, the Salings
OS grid reference
TL 700 252
Coordinates
51.90014, 0.47087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Lodge is a lodge cottage dating from the 18th to 19th century, constructed of gault brick with a grey slate roof that is hipped to the left and has an outshot to the right. It features a dentilled eaves cornice and is a single storey building. The front has a 2:1 window arrangement of vertically sliding sashes with stone cills and gauged brick arches, while the right outshot is plain. There is a boarded door on the left return, also with a gauged brick arch. No chimney stack is visible from the road. Attached to the lodge are cast iron railings that curve towards the entrance gates. These railings are approximately 1 metre high and consist of double railings forming panels, with foliate stems and fleur de lis heads in the top panels, as well as a continual curvilinear base and top rails. The gate features finials of a similar design.

Local climate

West Lodge and Attached Iron Railings and Gate 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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