West Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. A Early C19 Cottage.
West Lodge
- WRENN ID
- pale-hinge-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early C19
- Address
- West Lodge, Elmstead Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 028 243
- Coordinates
- 51.88075, 0.94535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge is an early 19th century Gothic cottage located on Elmstead Road. The building is octagonal in shape and features a verandah that wraps around it. It is constructed of brick and rendered, standing at one storey with a pointed window on each face. The cottage has a slate roof and Gothic-style chimneys.
Local climate
West Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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