Ashford Lodge Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Lodge cottage.
Ashford Lodge Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- north-baluster-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Lodge cottage
- Address
- Ashford Lodge Gatehouse, Sudbury Road, Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
- OS grid reference
- TL 823 324
- Coordinates
- 51.96073, 0.65315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashford Lodge Gatehouse is a lodge cottage built around 1840. It is constructed of gault brick in Flemish bond and has a slate roof. The building has an L-plan layout, with its main elevations facing northeast towards the access road to Ashford Lodge and northwest towards Sudbury Road. It is a single-storey structure.
The right end of the northeast elevation projects to create a splayed bay, featuring a central four-panel door flanked by original two-light casements on each side. To the left of the door, there is one original three-light casement. The northwest elevation includes one original three-light casement and one two-light casement. All the casements are divided by a single horizontal glazing bar positioned above the center.
The building has three projecting courses of brickwork beneath long overhanging eaves supported by flat brackets, and it features a hipped roof with a shallow pitch and three octagonal shafts. The southeast elevation, which faces Ashford Lodge, is adorned with a pedimented gable, corner pilasters, and three blind recesses with semi-circular heads.
Local climate
Ashford Lodge Gatehouse 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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