South Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1954. Gate lodge.
South Lodge
- WRENN ID
- shifting-newel-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1954
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- South Lodge, Goudhurst Road, Horsmonden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 713 397
- Coordinates
- 51.13146, 0.44729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Lodge is a gate lodge built around 1860 by the architect T.H. Wyatt. It is constructed from polychromatic sandstone and features a slate roof. The building has a cross plan, is single storey with an attic, and is topped with steep gabled roofs that have a parapet and a stack at the rear centre right. The windows are irregularly placed, consisting of two-light mullioned stone windows with relieving arches above, and there is a quatrefoil window to the left on the ground floor. To the right, there is a bay with arched windows. A boarded door is located in a single storey porch on the right re-entrant, which has an arched outer doorway supported by short columns with mined capitals. South Lodge was originally built as the gate lodge for Capel Manor, which was designed and constructed by T.H. Wyatt for the Austen family between 1859 and 1862, although the manor itself has now been largely demolished.
Local climate
South Lodge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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