Lodge at the Leys is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. Lodge, gardener's cottage.
Lodge at the Leys
- WRENN ID
- young-rubblework-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodge, gardener's cottage
- Address
- Lodge at the Leys, Barnet Lane, Elstree and Borehamwood
- OS grid reference
- TQ 184 950
- Coordinates
- 51.64152, -0.28996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge at The Leys is a lodge and gardener's cottage built around 1923 by George Walton for J.B.B. Wellington of The Leys. It features whitewashed render on the walls and chimneys, deep rendered eaves, and a very steeply pitched hipped roof covered with plain tiles and lead flashings. The building is a single range of one storey with an attic.
On the exterior, there are four windows on the ground floor, all of which are 3-light metal casements. The centre and right hip have raking dormers with similar windows. Between the left windows, there are double plank doors with metal lights. At the right end, there is a small flat-roofed larder.
Inside, the lodge includes small cast iron fire grates and plank doors with strap hinges that end in leaf motifs. This lodge is notable for its distinctive roof design, which it shares with The Leys, and is included for its group value with the Entrance Gatepiers and Gates, serving as a key subsidiary building to The Leys.
Local climate
Lodge at the Leys sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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