Bentley Heath Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Lodge.
Bentley Heath Lodge
- WRENN ID
- strange-sill-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 995
- Coordinates
- 51.6804, -0.19443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bentley Heath Lodge is a lodge for Wrotham Park, built in 1865, commissioned by G. Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, and designed by S.S. Teulon. The building features rockfaced, snecked Portland stone with ashlar dressings and has a red brick stack topped with a green slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with a cruciform plan that is asymmetrically arranged. The entrance is gabled and located at the angle of the main and cross blocks, featuring a pointed arch within a chamfered surround, supported by angle buttresses and topped with a coped gable parapet. The front has lancet windows with transoms, all of which are leaded casements. The gabled cross block includes a relieving arch above a double lancet window. The gable displays a datestone with "AD" under a coronet, along with kneelers and a ball finial decorated with quatrefoils. Other windows and gables share similar detailing. A canted bay on the left side has ovolo moulded jambs, and the left gable features intertwined S's. At the rear angle where the wing meets the main block, there is a stack set diagonally with two diagonal shafts, which have oversailing courses and tumbled brickwork. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bentley Heath Lodge 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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