Caretaker's Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1997. Lodge.
Caretaker's Lodge
- WRENN ID
- deep-chalk-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Caretaker's Lodge, 16, Gough Square Ec4, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 313 812
- Coordinates
- 51.51494, -0.10818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caretaker's Lodge, built between 1910 and 1912 by Alfred Burr, is designed in an early 18th-century style. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick detailing and features a steep slate roof. It has two storeys.
On the north elevation, there are paired entrances on the ground floor, with paired windows above that have gauged flat window heads. These windows break through the eaves into the roof and are topped with a segmental pediment. A red brick dentilled cornice and red brick quoins are present on the second storey, which sits above a red brick band. The east elevation includes a pair of oeil-de-bouef windows on the ground floor and single windows on the first floor that also break through the eaves, each topped with a segmental pediment. The south elevation features paired windows at the first floor level that break through the roofline.
Historically, the lodge was built for the curator of Johnson's house at No. 17 Gough Square, which was acquired by Lord Harmsworth in 1911 and refurbished by Alfred Burr.
Local climate
Caretaker's Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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