The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Lodge.
The Lodge
- WRENN ID
- silver-transept-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Lodge, Holt Road, North Elmham
- OS grid reference
- TF 987 214
- Coordinates
- 52.75427, 0.94366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge is a single-storey building, dating from around 1830, and is likely designed by W.J. Donthorn. It serves as the lodge to Elmham House and is constructed of brick with gault brick and stone dressings, topped with a plaintile roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the stem of the T oriented towards the drive side. It features three bays, with a doorway located on the cross wing facade. Each of the other sides consists of a single bay, marked by twin gault brick pilasters at the corners. The original windows are mullion and transom style, complete with moulded stone hood moulds that extend from a stringcourse of the same design. A boarded door is situated on the drive side gable-end. The eaves are notably wide, supported by plain square-sectioned brackets. The structure has three gables, one of which is roughcast, and displays the Sonde family arms on the drive side along with the motto "Esto quod esse videris" and the family crest on the road side. A central chimney stack is topped with four tall octagonal shafts.
Local climate
The Lodge receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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