Arch and Lodges to Sopwell House Drive is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Arch and lodges. 1 related planning application.
Arch and Lodges to Sopwell House Drive
- WRENN ID
- waning-tracery-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Arch and lodges
- Address
- Arch and Lodges to Sopwell House Drive, Cottonmill Lane, AL1 2HH
- OS grid reference
- TL 157 054
- Coordinates
- 51.73576, -0.32445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an archway with lodges that originally served the drive to Sopwell House. Dating from 1582, the arch stands at the roadside to the southeast of the main house. It is a tall, round arch flanked by two single-storey lodges. These lodges are stuccoed and feature a single window, set beneath low-pitched, hipped slate roofs. Cast iron double gates are positioned within the arch.
Local climate
Arch and Lodges to Sopwell House Drive sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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