Menlow Lodge, Including Front Garden Area Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1993. School annex. 2 related planning applications.
Menlow Lodge, Including Front Garden Area Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings
- WRENN ID
- dusk-window-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Constituency
- Southgate and Wood Green MP: Bambos Charalambous (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1993
- Type
- School annex
- Address
- Menlow Lodge, Including Front Garden Area Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings, 70, Fox Lane, N13 4BQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 307 934
- Coordinates
- 51.62446, -0.11255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Menlow Lodge is a school annex built in 1909-10 by H. G. Crothall for the Middlesex County Council, and later converted into flats. It is constructed of English bond red brick with stone dressings, and has a hipped plain tile roof with deep sproketed eaves. Brick lateral stacks are present, with moulded stone cornices and set-offs below.
The building is L-shaped and comprises caretaker's accommodation and manual training and cookery rooms. The main southwest front has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows, with a projecting three-window wing featuring 1, 2 and 3-light sashes. A flat roof half dormer projects through the eaves, and an integral outshut is located in the left angle, also with a flat roof dormer. A stone porch, set diagonally across the angle, has a segmental arch with a keystone. A stone arched canopy is above the doorway in the wing, and a stone segmental doorway is in the lower, two-storey, one-window bay, which is set back on the left. All sashes have glazing bars, and the first floor has gauged brick flat arches and keystones. Recessed stone quoins mark all corners. The left-hand return elevation has a 3-light sash on the first floor and a small bullseye window on the ground floor, both with quadrant keystones. The rear northeast elevation is symmetrical, with a 1:2:1 window arrangement; the centre has 2-light sashes and large cross mullion transom windows above the eaves, with semi-circular heads. A smaller, similar window is in the projection on the southeast side.
The property includes low red brick walls with moulded stone coping and piers at intervals, with railings between. Two large piers flank the house, featuring buttresses with consoles, billet-moulded caps, and lanterns above.
Local climate
Menlow Lodge, Including Front Garden Area Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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