Park Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Lodge.

Park Lodge

WRENN ID
still-chapel-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Lodge
Address
Park Lodge, Mill Street, Polstead
OS grid reference
TL 989 377
Coordinates
52.00227, 0.89731
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park Lodge is a small brick lodge from the early 19th century, located on Mill Street in Polstead. The building has been painted and features a hipped slate roof. It is a single storey structure with small modern casement windows. The central entrance has a glazed door set within a recessed doorway, which is flanked by Doric columns. At the eaves, there is a panelled brick frieze.

Local climate

Park Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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