The North East Lodge of the Demolished Mansion Bifrons is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Lodge.
The North East Lodge of the Demolished Mansion Bifrons
- WRENN ID
- long-string-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The North East Lodge of the Demolished Mansion Bifrons, Bifrons Hill, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne
- OS grid reference
- TR 187 554
- Coordinates
- 51.25595, 1.13386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The north-east lodge of the demolished mansion Bifrons is a mid-19th century cottage orné located in the estate village of the Marquesses Conygham. It is a single storey with an attic, faced with rough plaster and topped with a tiled roof. The lodge features casement windows and has an octagonal section at the south-east end, which has a conical roof and an ornamental red brick chimney stack at its apex.
There is a doorway on the north-east side with a large gabled hood above it. On the south-east side, a porch with barleysugar columns supports a gable adorned with scalloped bargeboards, leading to a pointed doorway. The south-west side includes a small bay window topped with a gable. The central portion of the lodge is recessed and contains one window and a small gable, with the first floor oversailing on the south side.
At the north-west end, there is a projection that forms a T shape with the recessed center. This section has larger gable ends on the north and south, also featuring scalloped bargeboards, with a bay window below each on the ground floor. The north-west front of this portion has a central pointed doorway, flanked by two windows with dripmoulds above and two gabled dormers, with each window bay bordered by pilasters.
Local climate
The North East Lodge of the Demolished Mansion Bifrons sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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