Gloucester Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. House.
Gloucester Lodge
- WRENN ID
- winter-chamber-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gloucester Lodge, Quarry Hill, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 091
- Coordinates
- 50.85381, 0.55327
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gloucester Lodge is an L-shaped house built in 1830, designed by James Burton, likely with input from Decimus Burton, as part of the original layout of St Leonards. It is in the Tudor/Gothic style and is stuccoed, standing three storeys tall with three windows.
The main facade faces southeast across the original Subscription Gardens, now known as St Leonards Gardens. The house is set on a terrace made of sandstone rusticated ashlar, which extends in front of it and includes a cellar. The front is flanked by stepped buttresses that rise nearly the full height of the elevation. It features a cornice and a castellated parapet, with a first-floor oriel window consisting of six lights, complete with mullions and a transom. On the second floor, there are three two-light casement windows, each with dripmoulds above. The ground floor has a verandah made of wrought iron and two-light casements. A circular tower rises from the flat roof at the northwest corner, topped with a flagpole and a weathervane. The entrance is located on the north side, featuring an enclosed porch with a moulded four-centred arch doorway and a dripmould. The chimneys are adorned with a group of twisted shafts.
Originally named the Castellated Villa, it was renamed Gloucester Lodge in honor of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, who resided there in 1831.
Local climate
Gloucester Lodge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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