The Lodge, Kay Walk is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Barn.
The Lodge, Kay Walk
- WRENN ID
- open-garret-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- The Lodge, Kay Walk, 4, Wynches Farm Drive
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75373, -0.29667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge, located on Kay Walk in Fleetville, is a small barn that has been converted into a common room. It dates from the 17th to 18th century and features a timber frame construction. The exterior is weatherboarded, with the south gable end finished in pargetting. The building has a plain tile roof and the east elevation includes a 19th-century three-light leaded casement window. Inside, the walls and roof timbers are fully exposed, showcasing close-studding and a queen strut roof. This building is included for its group value with other structures in the area.
Local climate
The Lodge, Kay Walk 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
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- 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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