Bedwell Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A C17 House. 9 related planning applications.

Bedwell Lodge

WRENN ID
white-iron-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
House
Address
Bedwell Lodge, Essendon, AL9 6JB
OS grid reference
TL 277 070
Coordinates
51.74729, -0.15042
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bedwell Lodge is a house dating to the early to mid-17th century, with significant alterations in the early 19th century and later changes in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The front of the house has a ground floor of red brick dating to the 17th century, above which is a first floor clad in weatherboarding. Distinctive plastered gable ends feature angled brick courses. The front facade includes three recessed sash windows and a half-glazed door. The garden elevation reveals an early 19th-century weatherboarded upper floor with two eight-pane sash windows, along with canted ground floor window bays and a bracketed porch. A slate roof covers the structure.

A substantial early to mid-17th-century staircase is located at the rear centre of the house, rising to the attic, and is characterised by plain round balusters and rustication to the newels. The first-floor landing features a wooden door arch of the same date, exhibiting chamfered spandrels and a finial key block. The ground-floor rooms on the right-hand side retain ovolo-moulded beams, while a rear wall contains a 17th-century four-light mullioned window, now enclosed within an outshut.

Local climate

Bedwell Lodge 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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 — 8 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
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