Gatehouse to Coval Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Lodge. 1 related planning application.

Gatehouse to Coval Lodge

WRENN ID
fading-bailey-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Constituency
Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1988
Type
Lodge
Address
Gatehouse to Coval Lodge, Rainsford Road, CM1 2QL
OS grid reference
TL 700 073
Coordinates
51.73886, 0.46206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gatehouse to Coval Lodge, built around 1840, is a single-storey lodge made of painted brick with a low-pitched slated roof that features overhanging eaves. The structure has three bays, with the central bay being the widest and the two side bays recessed. The left and right bays contain entrances, with the left featuring a depressed pointed arched head and a planked door. The central bay has a projecting three-light square-sided bay window beneath a separate roof. This window has architraves with timber mullions and a transom, along with timber glazing bars that divide each light into two sub-lights; the upper lights have painted heads and some original coloured glass in the right and centre lights. The right bay includes a single architraved window that is divided vertically into three sub-lights with pointed heads and original coloured glass in the spandrels, along with timber glazing bars. The gatehouse also has paired fused stacks at the centre.

Local climate

Gatehouse to Coval 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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