Merlewood Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1975. A C19 Lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Merlewood Lodge
- WRENN ID
- white-chimney-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1975
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Merlewood Lodge, Windermere Road, Grange-Over-Sands, LA11 6JT
- OS grid reference
- SD 411 793
- Coordinates
- 54.20652, -2.90414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merlewood Lodge is a lodge built in 1853, located in Grange-over-Sands. The building features roughcast walls with limestone dressings and a slate roof, and it is two storeys high. The north wall, which faces the driveway, includes a one-bay gabled wing on the right. The windows are fitted with glazing bars and have stone surrounds. The ground floor window consists of three lights with timber mullions and has a hood mould. The first-floor window has a triangular head and a central mullion. To the left, there is a bay with a ground-floor window that has two pointed lights separated by a timber mullion, along with a first-floor dormer window designed as a corbelled oriel. A deep gabled timber porch with glazed sides is located to the right, at the angle with the gabled wing. The left-hand return gable wall, which faces east towards the main road, has a one-bay design featuring a timber canted bay window on the ground floor and carved bargeboards. The rear gable wall of the right-hand wing displays a plaque dated '1853'.
Local climate
Merlewood Lodge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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.
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- 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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