Tower Lodges is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1952. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Tower Lodges
- WRENN ID
- third-loggia-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Tower Lodges, Hitchin Road, Codicote, SG4 8TQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 218 206
- Coordinates
- 51.87067, -0.23085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Lodges is a lodge and gateway built in 1816 by Mrs E Bulwer Lytton. The structure was created using materials salvaged from a gatehouse demolished during alterations to Knebworth House in 1811. It is constructed of Tudor red brick with stone dressings, incorporating some 19th-century red brick and stucco. The building comprises two lodges flanking a 16th-century moulded archway, which has a hood mould above it, and a plaque over the gate. The lodges have two storeys and feature two-light Tudor windows with square moulded hoods. To the right of the archway is an octagonal stair turret with three sides, containing narrow slit windows and a door set in a Tudor surround. A late-19th-century extension exists to the right, incorporating reset Tudor windows. The entire structure is battlemented with 19th-century stucco.
Local climate
Tower Lodges sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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