Lodge to Hilfield Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1984. Lodge.
Lodge to Hilfield Castle
- WRENN ID
- idle-joist-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge to Hilfield Castle, Hilfield Lane, Aldenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 151 961
- Coordinates
- 51.65196, -0.33667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodge to Hilfield Castle, built around 1798-1799 by Jeffry Wyatt for G. Villiers, is a two-storey structure designed in a picturesque Gothic style. It is constructed of rendered brick, and the roof is not visible. The building features irregular fenestration, with a door that has a two-centred head and a drip mould, located in a one-storey porch. There is an octagonal crenellated corner tower with slit windows and string courses. To the right, there is a square-headed casement window with a hood mould, while to the left, a gable with a coped parapet sits above a three-light window. A stack is located at the rear. An early 20th-century two-storey addition to the right is not of special interest.
Local climate
Lodge to Hilfield Castle 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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