Lodge at Highland Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 2004. Cemetery lodge. 8 related planning applications.

Lodge at Highland Road Cemetery

WRENN ID
low-doorway-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 2004
Type
Cemetery lodge
Address
Lodge at Highland Road Cemetery, City of Portsmouth, PO4 9AH
OS grid reference
SZ 658 989
Coordinates
50.78596, -1.06712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lodge at Highland Road Cemetery is a cemetery lodge built around 1854 by Thomas Ellis Owen, showcasing Gothic architectural style. Constructed from red brick in stretcher bond, it features a slate roof and two tall brick chimneystacks. The building is L-shaped and has one to two storeys.

On the west elevation facing the road, there is a projecting gable adorned with fretted bargeboards. The first floor has a sash window without glazing bars, while the ground floor features a three-light canted bay. The roof slopes down to arched openings that likely originally formed a porch but have since been enclosed.

The north elevation also displays a gable with fretted bargeboards, a sash window without glazing bars on the first floor, and a blocked three-light window on the ground floor. The east or rear elevation includes a gable with fretted bargeboards, a two-light window on the first floor, and a square bay on the ground floor, accompanied by a two-light mullioned window and an arched doorcase.

This lodge remains largely unaltered and is part of a grouping of Gothic style structures in the only cemetery designed by Thomas Ellis Owen in Portsmouth.

Local climate

Lodge at Highland Road Cemetery receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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