Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1999. Cemetery lodge. 1 related planning application.

Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls

WRENN ID
patient-pilaster-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mole Valley
Constituency
Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1999
Type
Cemetery lodge
Address
Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls, Reigate Road, RH4 1QF
OS grid reference
TQ 174 499
Coordinates
51.23658, -0.31891
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dorking Cemetery Lodge, along with its entrance arch, former mortuary, and attached walls, was built in 1856 by the firm of Cubitt and Sons, designed by Henry Clutton. This structure is in the Early English style and is constructed from flint with stone dressings and a tiled roof featuring ridge tiles and two stone chimneystacks. The lodge, located to the extreme left, is two storeys with attics and has a 2:1 window arrangement on the front. The windows, which have Caernarvon arches, have been replaced with late 20th-century UPVC. The building has an L-shaped plan, with one two-light casement and one four-light casement on the first floor, along with a gabled dormer. There are plinth and bands between the floors. The rear features a lower gabled wing with two bays and an external chimneystack.

Adjoining the lodge is an entrance archway and a former mortuary, which is a single storey. To the left, there is a pedestrian arch with a Caernarvon arch, and an arched carriage entrance under a gable with kneelers. The front elevation includes three lancets, a triple arched window, and another lancet. The rear has a timber-framed verandah and gable. Attached to the site is a low flint cemetery wall with brick buttresses, stone coping, brick and stone gatepiers, and cast iron gates featuring quatrefoil motifs.

Local climate

Dorking Cemetery Lodge, Entrance Arch, Former Mortuary and Attached Walls receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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