The Lodge, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls, Carmel College is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1997. Lodge. 2 related planning applications.
The Lodge, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls, Carmel College
- WRENN ID
- stark-storey-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Lodge, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls, Carmel College, A4074, Crowmarsh, OX10 8BU
- OS grid reference
- SU 616 879
- Coordinates
- 51.58676, -1.11149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge, gate piers, and flanking walls form the entrance to Carmel College, constructed in 1889 and likely designed by R.S. Wornum. The building is red brick in Flemish bond, with rubbed brick and Portland stone dressings, and has a clay tile hipped roof with a modillion eaves cornice. A brick stack rises from the roof apex, embellished with small brick corner pilasters.
The lodge is square in plan, facing the drive, with a porch on the left side of the north front and a short single-storey wing to the rear left. A gateway is attached to the porch. The design is Queen Anne in style.
The north front features a canted bay window to the right and a large porch to the left, with stone balustrades supporting squat Tuscan columns and a canopy with a pedimental gable. The gable features a strapwork cartouche inscribed 'A.C.F. - AD 1889'. A panelled door is fitted with a round-arched light above. Large dormers with semi-circular pediments and shell motifs are set within the roof on the north, east, and west sides, the north dormer having a replaced sash window. The windows are casements with glazing bars, set within rubbed brick arches, and have quoins. The west side has a half-hipped roof.
The rear, south, side has a short single-storey wing to the right, with a doorway in the gable end.
The gateway adjoins the north east corner, featuring a pair of Portland stone gate piers with panelled sides, carved drops, moulded caps, and ball finials. Similar outer piers support low linking walls; the south wall is integral with the porch.
The interior of the lodge has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Lodge, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls, Carmel College 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 82% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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