The Old Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. A Late C17 House.

The Old Lodge

WRENN ID
quartered-mortar-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
House
Address
The Old Lodge, River Hill, Flamstead
OS grid reference
TL 079 147
Coordinates
51.82053, -0.43519
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Lodge is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a brick front added in the early 19th century. The building features an exposed timber frame with painted brick infill only at the rear and a plastered south gable end. The front is made of plum brick and has a steep old red tile roof. It is a two-storey house with a basement, situated next to the pavement and facing west.

The structure has three bays with an end chimney at the north that emerges in front of the ridge. The west front has three windows, with cambered arches over the ground floor openings. The windows are two-light recessed casement types. On the right side, there is a four-panel flush-beaded door, while on the left, a similar door is accessed by two steps and has a fully gabled tiled hood supported by brackets. To the left of the door, there is a canted bay window with sash windows that also lights the basement room at the downhill end of the house.

The rear wall exposes three bays of timber framing with narrow studs and straight braces at the south corner. On the first floor, there are two three-light old casement windows, with two flat-topped dormers above at the eaves that light the same rooms.

Local climate

The Old Lodge 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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