Gate Lodge, North East of Helmingham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1995. A 19th century Gate lodge.

Gate Lodge, North East of Helmingham Hall

WRENN ID
mired-keystone-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1995
Type
Gate lodge
OS grid reference
TM 189 578
Coordinates
52.1751, 1.20141
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gate Lodge, located northeast of Helmingham Hall, is a gate lodge built around 1820, possibly designed by B. B. Catt of Ipswich. It is constructed of brick and features roofs made of pantile. The building stands two storeys tall with a shallow-pitched, gable-facing range that projects from the center of the longer range, having one window on either side. At the intersection of the roof ridges is an octagonal chimney stack. The windows are flat arched and have leaded casement lights, with the window in the center range on the first floor featuring a Tudor weathermoulding. The entrance below is pointed arched and is flanked by pointed-arched lancets, with a door that retains its original design. This lodge is an early example of a modestly scaled Tudor revival house and forms a group with Helmingham Hall.

Local climate

Gate Lodge, North East of Helmingham Hall 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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