Lodge, Gates and Gate Piers Formerly to the Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1990. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Lodge, Gates and Gate Piers Formerly to the Towers
- WRENN ID
- waiting-ledge-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1990
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge, Gates and Gate Piers Formerly to the Towers, Colchester Road, Heybridge, CM9 4AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 859 082
- Coordinates
- 51.74221, 0.69232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a lodge, now a house, dating from around 1870 and originally built for E. M. Bentall. It is constructed of in-situ concrete, designed to resemble masonry, and features a roof that is concealed by a blocking course, topped with a central stack that has four pots adorned with a Greek-key design. The lodge is designed in a Classical style and is a single-storey structure with a two-window range and a splayed corner. It has a plinth and a deep coved cornice. The front elevation includes two sash windows with vertical glazing bars set in reveals, along with an additional sash window on the splayed corner.
On the side elevation, there is a portico supported by a fluted Doric column, a pier, and two pilasters. To the right side of the lodge, there is a pedestrian gate flanked by pilasters topped with a cornice, along with two large square concrete carriage-gate piers that are incised to mimic masonry and feature a stylized Greek-key design above. The wooden gates are topped with elaborate iron grilles. The interior has not been inspected. This lodge was built as the entrance to The Towers, which has since been demolished, and it represents an early and stylistically elaborate use of concrete as a building material.
Local climate
Lodge, Gates and Gate Piers Formerly to the Towers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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