Lodge on West Side of Drive to Mereworth Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. A C18 Lodge.
Lodge on West Side of Drive to Mereworth Castle
- WRENN ID
- winter-grate-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge on West Side of Drive to Mereworth Castle, Maidstone Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 669 536
- Coordinates
- 51.2576, 0.39088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an entrance lodge located on the west side of the drive to Mereworth Castle, dating from the mid-18th century. It is rendered and features a modillion eaves cornice beneath a slate roof. The lodge has a gable-end facing east, which includes a gable-pediment and an oculus. It is two storeys high with three bays, and there are sash windows in the two bays that face the road. A projecting pedimented porch is situated on the north side. To the east of the lodge, there is a one-storey pavilion that is connected by a short screen wall, and it matches the east lodge. The lodge has been relocated to the wrong side of Maidstone Road.
Local climate
Lodge on West Side of Drive to Mereworth Castle receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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