Lodge to the Warren is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Lodge. 7 related planning applications.
Lodge to the Warren
- WRENN ID
- tangled-pillar-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge to the Warren, 1, St Peter's Hill, RG4 7AX
- OS grid reference
- SU 708 749
- Coordinates
- 51.46901, -0.98124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge to The Warren is an early 19th-century cottage ornée, built in a picturesque style. It is constructed of squared and knapped flint with ashlar quoins and bracket cills. The first floor is jettied and stuccoed with applied timbering. The roof is tiled, and features scalloped bargeboards with brackets to the verges and pendants.
The lodge has three bays to the east. The ground floor features two cross windows, flanking a two-storey tower porch. The first floor of the porch is jettied and supported on octagonal columns with moulded caps. Above the porch are three lancet windows (one replacing a former door), and a pointed window on the first floor. To the north, a gable to the left incorporates a three-light bay under a jetty.
A 1938 replica extension, in two bays and with one-and-a-half stories, extends to the right, featuring a gabled dormer and a central door. The south gable also features a jetty supported on thin cast iron colonettes. The building has two chimneys with paired octagonal shafts displaying raised diaper patterning. Originally thatched with lower eaves, the roof was altered at some point.
Local climate
Lodge to the Warren sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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