Shrubland Hall Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Lodge.

Shrubland Hall Lodge

WRENN ID
leaning-timber-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1986
Type
Lodge
Address
Shrubland Hall Lodge, Norwich Road, Barham
OS grid reference
TM 126 514
Coordinates
52.12069, 1.1043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shrubland Hall Lodge is a Grade II listed lodge cottage built around 1856 in the Italianate style for Sir W.F. Middleton, Bart. The lodge features a small three-storey tower with single-storey wings on three sides. It is primarily constructed of gault brick, accented by prominent stucco dressings, including rusticated quoins, a band at the first floor, and a modillioned cornice just below the eaves. The roof is pyramidal, covered with double Roman pantiles, and has oversailing eaves with exposed sprockets.

The lodge has various original windows, each framed by broad stucco architraves. On the west face, there is a pair of niches within a gabled oriel, supported by columns. The ground floor features several small-pane sash windows. An open colonnade facing the gateway supports a hipped-roofed balcony. The entrance door is panelled, with the upper part glazed, and above it is a blind arch that bears the monogram W.F.M.

To the left, there is a small single-storey wing that was raised to two storeys in the mid-20th century. The lodge shares stylistic similarities with the Italianate tower that was added to Shrubland Hall during the same period by Sir Charles Barry, although there is no evidence that he was involved in the design of this lodge.

Local climate

Shrubland Hall Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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