Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1949. Gateway, lodges. 1 related planning application.
Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park
- WRENN ID
- dark-bonework-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1949
- Type
- Gateway, lodges
- Address
- Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park, South Mimms and Ridge, EN5 4RA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 232 989
- Coordinates
- 51.67558, -0.21901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodges and arched gateway to Dyrham Park date from around 1790 to 1800 and are designed in a monumental Neo-classical style. They are constructed from stuccoed brick with stone dressings, and the lodges feature slate roofs. The entrance arch is notable for its two attached Tuscan columns that support an entablature. Atop the arch is a sarcophagus-like block adorned with festoons and a central roundel, all topped by an urn. The spandrels of the arch include paterae.
Half-height link walls connect the arch to the square lodges and are pierced by round-headed entrances. Each lodge has window architraves on all sides, featuring scrolled bracketed pediments, although some are damaged and all are currently blocked. A continuous stringcourse runs from the impost level of the central arch to the top of the link walls, reaching the cornice level of the window architraves. The lodges have a cornice below the eaves level and pyramidal roofs with central chimneys. Iron gates are stored on the site.
Local climate
Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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