Front Lodge to Oxhey Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Lodge.
Front Lodge to Oxhey Grange
- WRENN ID
- under-fireplace-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Front Lodge to Oxhey Grange, Oxhey Lane, Watford Rural
- OS grid reference
- TQ 121 943
- Coordinates
- 51.63661, -0.3812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Front Lodge to Oxhey Grange, dated 1908, is a single-storey building with an attic, constructed from red brick with ashlar dressings and featuring a tiled roof. The lodge is square in shape with diagonally cut corners and has a symmetrical front facing the drive. The central entrance includes a panelled door with a moulded ashlar surround and a bracketed stone hood, with a datestone positioned above.
On either side of the entrance, there are 6-light casement windows that wrap around the corners, consisting of two lights on the front, two on the splays, and two on the returns, all featuring leaded lights and chamfered stone mullions. A continuous string course runs above the lintels of these windows. The deep boxed eaves are interrupted by a central 4-light dormer that has chamfered stone mullions and a stone-coped gable. The roof is pyramidal and hipped to accommodate the splayed corners, with a cruciform central ridge stack.
Ashlar and string courses continue along the returns of the building. At the rear right, there is a 4-light casement window, with two additional windows on the return and two on the splay. Gabled dormers similar to those at the front are present on all elevations, and there is a 2-light casement on the left return. The rear features blocked windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Front Lodge to Oxhey Grange sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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