The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Lodge.
The Lodge
- WRENN ID
- kindled-groin-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Lodge, Hempstead Road, Bovingdon
- OS grid reference
- TL 021 046
- Coordinates
- 51.73157, -0.52272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge is a 1½ storey building located on Hempstead Road in Bovingdon, originally serving as the lodge for Westbrook Hay and now functioning as a private house. A plaque on the south gable indicates it was built in 1851 for the Ryder family. The structure features uncoursed flint and puddingstone with red brick dressings and a red tile roof adorned with scalloped tile bands. This picturesque double lodge, formerly known as the Upper Lodge, was intended for the gatekeeper, with the gamekeeper's house located at the rear. It has recessed cross windows with ovolo moulded wood mullions and lattice leaded casements, along with decorative pierced and cusped bargeboards. The door details are reminiscent of G.G. Scott's church at Flaunden, built in 1838. An elaborate gabled timber porch faces the drive to the east, featuring a large carved coat of arms in the gable and Jacobethan detailing on the four-centred arched doorway. Gabled dormers rise through the eaves.
Local climate
The Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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