Lower Lodge in Friar Park is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Lodge.

Lower Lodge in Friar Park

WRENN ID
long-grate-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1974
Type
Lodge
Address
Lower Lodge in Friar Park, Gravel Hill, Henley-On-Thames
OS grid reference
SU 756 826
Coordinates
51.53746, -0.91132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Lodge in Friar Park is a late 19th-century building constructed of red brick and stone, featuring a flamboyant Gothic design with an irregular plan. The eastern end of the lodge has a one and a half-storey advanced hexagonal section, and the windows are designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style with stone tracery. The structure is topped with elaborate pierced stone battlements that include finials and gargoyles. It has a pyramidal tiled roof, and the main section features casement windows with oriel windows above a Tudor arched door. The building is also adorned with elaborate banded chimneys. The Lower Lodge is part of a group of buildings on the Friar Park estate and is grouped with the entrance walls, gates, and piers, as well as Ancastle Cottage located opposite.

Local climate

Lower Lodge in Friar Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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