Upper 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.
Upper Lodge in Friar Park
- WRENN ID
- pale-cinder-nettle
- 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
- Upper Lodge in Friar Park, Gravel Hill, Henley-On-Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 751 829
- Coordinates
- 51.54047, -0.91807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Lodge in Friar Park is a later 19th-century building designed in a flamboyant Gothic style. It is constructed of red brick with a tile-hung first floor and features a tiled roof topped with a dragon finial. The lodge has two storeys with two windows and a central stone doorway that is Tudor arched. On the western side, there is a bay of five lights with stone mullions and transoms, while the eastern side has a two-light window. The first-floor western window has modern glazing in a moulded frame, and the eastern side features a small rectangular window below the balcony. Notable details include arms and a motto above the doorway and heraldic animals over the window below the turret. The lodge is part of a group of buildings within the Friar Park estate, which also includes the lower lodge, entrance walls, gates, and piers, forming a group with Ancastle Cottage opposite.
Local climate
Upper 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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