St Josephs Lodge and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
St Josephs Lodge and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- moated-entrance-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- St Josephs Lodge and Gateway, 21, St Marys Lane, Hertford, SG14 2LX
- OS grid reference
- TL 308 118
- Coordinates
- 51.79041, -0.10476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Joseph's Lodge and gateway is a lodge and gateway built in the early 20th century, with an extension added in the 1980s. The structure is made of red brick in stretcher bond, topped with old tiled roofs featuring Dutch gables and stone copings. It has a brick chimneystack with four low octagonal shafted moulded brick flues and is designed in a Jacobean style.
The lodge is two storeys high. The front elevation features a three-light window on the first floor, which has moulded brick mullions, iron casements with lattice leaded glazing, a splayed brick sill, and a moulded brick dripmould. The Dutch gable above includes stone kneelers, moulded copings, and a ball finial on a pedestal, along with a moulded band at the first-floor level. The ground floor has a projecting semicircular bay with five lattice glazed lights, a corbelled cornice, and a parapet with brick balusters and inner moulded lozenges.
On the north flank elevation, there is a projecting Dutch gable and a lean-to porch, while the south elevation features a Dutch-gabled dormer and both three-light and two-light windows. The building was extended eastwards by one bay in the 1980s, with the original Dutch gable reset.
The gateway consists of substantial red brick piers in Flemish bond, topped with stone caps and ball finials, and features elaborate scrollwork wrought-iron gates. This building is an important part of the setting of St Mary's Church and its churchyard.
Local climate
St Josephs Lodge and Gateway sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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