Lodge to Highfield is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1984. Lodge.

Lodge to Highfield

WRENN ID
stark-clay-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1984
Type
Lodge
Address
Lodge to Highfield, Palace Road, Ripon, HG4 1ET
OS grid reference
SE 310 720
Coordinates
54.14303, -1.5256
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lodge to Highfield is a mid-19th century building located on the south side of Ripon Palace Road. It is constructed of rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and features steeply pitched ornamental slate roofs. The gables are coped and adorned with ornamental stone urns on the kneelers and at the apex. The lodge is one storey high with attics and includes two-light stone mullioned sash windows, some of which have ornamental stone features above them.

Local climate

Lodge to Highfield receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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