West Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Lodge. 4 related planning applications.
West Lodge
- WRENN ID
- vacant-tracery-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- West Lodge, Blacksmith Lane, St. Martha, GU4 8NQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 024 474
- Coordinates
- 51.21729, -0.53396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge is a late 19th-century lodge that served the gunpowder works in Chilworth and is now a house. It is built of Flemish bond brick with brick ridge stacks and has a gabled tiled roof.
The building has a single-depth plan consisting of a two-room house with an attached single-room gatehouse. The exterior features a single-storey structure with a one-window gatehouse and a one-window house behind it. The lower gatehouse has a gable end with a canted left corner and two 3/1-pane sash windows, a blocked doorway on the left side, and a chimney at the rear right. The house has gable ends with rough-cast and exposed trusses, single casement windows, a later porch in the re-entrant with the gatehouse, a gabled bay window to the left, and a blind rear.
The interior has not been inspected.
Historically, the Chilworth gunpowder mills operated from the early 17th century until their closure in 1920, making it a significant site in the history of the gunpowder industry in the UK. In 1885, the mills began producing smokeless powder under the management of a German company, Burbach, which invested in new facilities. The gatehouse dates from this period and overlooked the entrance to the eastern part of the works.
Local climate
West Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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