Front Lodge and Screen Wall to Right is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Lodge, screen wall.

Front Lodge and Screen Wall to Right

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Type
Lodge, screen wall
Address
Front Lodge and Screen Wall to Right, 162, Ipswich Road, Helmingham
OS grid reference
TM 189 574
Coordinates
52.17165, 1.20065
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Front Lodge and screen wall to the right is a lodge cottage, part of a pair located at the entrance to the southeast approach of Helmingham Hall, known as Oak Walk. It was likely built around 1841 by Anthony Salvin in the Tudor style. The lodge is constructed of red brick featuring a diaper pattern in black headers. It has octagonal corner buttresses made of red brick and a continuous moulded limestone cornice at the base of the parapet. At the top of each buttress, there are circular shafts made of carved brick topped with terracotta onion finials that match those at the corners. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and there are two red brick chimneys with octagonal bases and circular flues made of carved brick. The building has one storey and attics, with two large bay windows that have stone mullions and transoms, embattled parapets, and leaded lights. Each gable features a similar two-light window that illuminates the attic. To the right of the lodge, there is a 5-meter length of screen wall made of red brick, which is embattled and has moulded copings of red brick.

Local climate

Front Lodge and Screen Wall to Right sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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