South Lodge at Abbotswood (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Lodge.

South Lodge at Abbotswood (Not Included)

WRENN ID
odd-ashlar-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Lodge
Address
South Lodge at Abbotswood (Not Included), Manor Road
OS grid reference
SD 220 718
Coordinates
54.13616, -3.19449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

South Lodge at Abbotswood is a lodge built in 1873 for James Ramsden, who was the first Mayor of Barrow. The building is half-timbered and sits on a red sandstone plinth with a red tile roof. It has two storeys and features a gable front with a side wing on the left and a porch under a catslide roof at the angle; there is a 20th-century addition on the right.

The lodge has transomed casements with small leaded panes and pargetted panels decorated with flowers, leaves, and the date. The front gable includes a canted-bay window with a configuration of 1:4:1 lights beneath a moulded bressumer. The eaves are coved and the hipped roof is interrupted by a second storey bay that has a 5-light window topped with a decorative bargeboard featuring a pendant.

On the left, the open-sided porch has a turned balustrade and columns, ogee spandrels, and an integral front gate. The porch plinth and balustrade extend to the left, connecting with an ashlar gate pier that has a carved panel and a ball finial. The door within the porch is topped with a decorative ogee lintel.

On the right return, there is a lateral stack with an offset ashlar plinth and twin octagonal flues, along with a matching ridge stack at the rear. The left return features coving to the eaves of the side wing and a 4-light oriel window, along with a pierced barge-board carved with a vine trail. This lodge was built to serve Abbotswood, which has since been demolished.

Local climate

South Lodge at Abbotswood (Not Included) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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