Lodge at the Hydro is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1973. Lodge.
Lodge at the Hydro
- WRENN ID
- lesser-balcony-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1973
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge at the Hydro, Helm Road, Windermere, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 406 969
- Coordinates
- 54.36491, -2.91565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge at the Hydro, built in 1834, is a Victorian building in Gothic style located on Helm Road in Bowness. It features roughcast walls with quoins and stands two storeys tall. The building has Gothic windows, an oriel on the west gable end, and a niche at the top of the gable. The front includes a central pointed arched doorway adorned with Gothic tracery and an open timber porch. On the ground floor, there are two triangular-headed sash windows, another sash window above the door, and two plain sash windows on the first floor. The roof is punctuated by two small dormers.
Local climate
Lodge at the Hydro sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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