Kentwell Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Lodge.
Kentwell Lodge
- WRENN ID
- carved-truss-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Kentwell Lodge, High Street, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 867 467
- Coordinates
- 52.0879, 0.72376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kentwell Lodge is an early 19th-century timber-framed and plastered lodge located on the west side of High Street in Long Melford, serving as the entrance to Kentwell Hall. The building is one storey high with attics and features a three-window range on the east front, consisting of three-light casements with Gothic arched lights. The north and south ends each have a single window range, which includes ogee arched casements with Gothic lights. The lodge has a central five-panel door with ogee arched panels, surrounded by an architrave and cornice. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
Kentwell Lodge 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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