Lodge to Town Close House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Lodge.

Lodge to Town Close House

WRENN ID
brooding-cobalt-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Lodge
Address
Lodge to Town Close House, Ipswich Road, NR2 2LP
OS grid reference
TG 224 072
Coordinates
52.61751, 1.28467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lodge to Town Close House is a mid to late 19th-century building located on Ipswich Road. It is constructed of painted brick with a rendered plinth and features a pantiled roof along with two brick ridge chimneys. The building has an irregular plan and stands two storeys high. The street-facing facade includes two first-floor windows and a blind wing. Access to the lodge is from the rear, and the windows are fitted with 20th-century casements that have glazing bars.

Local climate

Lodge to Town Close House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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