The Lodge, Tongswood is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. A C20 Gate lodge.
The Lodge, Tongswood
- WRENN ID
- silver-bracket-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Period
- C20
- Address
- The Lodge, Tongswood, Rye Road, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 774 301
- Coordinates
- 51.04347, 0.53045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge at Tongswood is a gate lodge built in the early 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar details and features a plain tiled roof. The building is designed in a free Baroque-revival style and is single storey with an attic. The roof is pediment-gabled and includes a central stack cluster and a dormer with a pediment that displays an Arms cartouche, along with a 5-light stone mullioned window.
On the ground floor, there is a 3-light mullioned and transomed window to the left, and to the right, there are ashlar, parapeted sections topped with obelisk finials, as well as a central arcade supported by Doric columns. The right return has a bracketed pentice roof with additional mullioned and transomed windows. At the rear, there is a single storey wing with a parget gable and end stack, featuring a canted bay with a raking roof and diamond-leaded windows. This lodge originally served as the main gate lodge for the Tongswood Estate.
Local climate
The Lodge, Tongswood receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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