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

Hitcham Lodge

WRENN ID
frozen-chalk-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 July 1980
Type
Lodge
Address
Hitcham Lodge, Brettenham
OS grid reference
TL 961 522
Coordinates
52.13349, 0.86495
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hitcham Lodge is a mid-19th century red brick building that once served as the south lodge to Brettenham Park. It features a tiled roof with moulded brick chimney stacks that have circular shafts, as well as cut and shaped bargeboards. The building is two storeys high and includes iron lattice casements.

Local climate

Hitcham 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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