White Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Gatelodge.

White Lodge

WRENN ID
silent-hall-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Gatelodge
Address
White Lodge, Frogmore Bottom, St. Paul's Walden
OS grid reference
TL 176 224
Coordinates
51.88838, -0.29236
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Lodge is a gatelodge to the west drive of Stagenhoe Park, now a private house, built in 1897. An inscription on the southeast angle reads 'VR J 60/WBH', commemorating Queen Victoria's 60th Jubilee and William Bayley Hawkins. The building features brick roughcast with steep red tile hipped roofs and extensive white-painted woodwork, showcasing a charming Arts and Crafts style reminiscent of Kate Greenaway's illustrations.

The lodge is 1½-storeys tall and faces the drive to the south, with an L-shaped plan that includes a single-storey open porch with a seat at the southeast angle. It has an exaggerated overhang at the eaves supported by long, curling wrought iron brackets. The small casement windows have heavy wooden glazing bars and heart-shaped holes in the external shutters. The porch is flanked by brackets shaped like birds in flight, and there is a moulded cornice above the flat roof.

Local climate

White 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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