The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Gatelodge.
The Lodge
- WRENN ID
- blind-cornice-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Gatelodge
- Address
- The Lodge, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 266
- Coordinates
- 51.92634, -0.30294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge is a gatelodge, now a private house, built in the mid-18th century and heightened in the early 19th century. It is constructed of grey brick and features a steep hipped red tile roof. This small, picturesque lodge has a semi-circular eastern end that faces the road. The eastern end includes a wide full-height recessed panel on each side of the central door, executed in header-bond. On either side of the door, there is a two-light flush mullioned wooden window with leaded lights and plate casement, symmetrically arranged within the recessed panel, topped with a segmental arch. The door has a flat gauged arch above it, and there is a tall gabled dormer window at the peak of the steep semi-circular end of the roof, situated in front of a central red brick chimney. The dormer features bargeboards and a two-light casement window. Each long side of the house has a door and two similar leaded mullioned windows. The Lodge was formerly the gatelodge to the mansion called Offley Holes, which no longer exists.
Local climate
The Lodge 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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