Octagonal Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Lodge cottage.
Octagonal Lodge
- WRENN ID
- steep-tower-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Lodge cottage
- Address
- Octagonal Lodge, Matching
- OS grid reference
- TL 499 110
- Coordinates
- 51.77775, 0.17268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Octagonal Lodge is a lodge cottage built in the late 18th century to early 19th century, with extensions added in the 20th century. It is constructed of yellow-grey bricks in Flemish bond and has a roof covered with red clay tiles from the 20th century. The building is octagonal in shape, featuring a central chimney stack and a pyramidal roof. Originally, it was divided into two rooms and is a single storey structure.
To the east, there is a single storey extension that is roughcast rendered and includes an external chimney stack at the end, dating from the early 20th century. There is also a flat-roofed extension to the south, built in matching brickwork in the late 20th century. All the windows in the lodge are 20th-century casements. The lodge appears without these extensions in the Harlow tithe settlement of 1849, as recorded in the Essex Record Office.
Local climate
Octagonal 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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