Lodge Cottage to Barton Mere House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Lodge.
Lodge Cottage to Barton Mere House
- WRENN ID
- secret-bronze-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge Cottage to Barton Mere House, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 912 667
- Coordinates
- 52.26604, 0.80146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lodge Cottage, built around 1870, is a two-storey structure with an L-shaped plan. It features red brick dentil cornices and gable end chimney stacks with two square shafts set diagonally on a plain base. The roof is plaintiled, accented with bands of fish scale tiles. On the left side, there is a triangular single-storey bay topped with a conical roof of fish scale tiles, which includes two small-paned windows with rounded heads. On the right side, there is a single-storey canted bay with a tripartite roof of fish scale tiles and three small-paned windows with rounded heads. The upper storey has four paired windows that match those below, with a small gablet featuring a slit opening above each pair and a blank shield positioned between them. The entrance includes a door with a small gabled porch supported on brackets.
Local climate
Lodge Cottage to Barton Mere House 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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