The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Lodge

WRENN ID
sacred-bonework-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
The Lodge, Moorlands Road, Merriott, TA16 5NF
OS grid reference
ST 441 120
Coordinates
50.90518, -2.79564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lodge is a detached cottage from the 19th century, possibly designed by the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, who also worked on Moorlands. The building is constructed from cut and squared Ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with plain overhung gables. It has brick chimney stacks in pairs, set diagonally on square bases.

The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay being a narrow, gabled projection. The windows are hollow-chamfer mullioned, set in chamfered recesses. On the ground floor, the third bay has a three-light window, while the first bay features a single-storey angled bay with a hipped stepped stone roof, consisting of one light, three lights, and one light. The first floor has three and two-light windows in bays one and three, respectively, and a single-light window with a label in the upper second bay. All windows are rectangular and leaded.

The second bay on the ground floor has a plain chamfered doorway with a label, which is stepped up over a plain shield plaque. There are also two two-light windows without labels in the north gable. The interior has not been seen. The building is marked as Lilac Lodge on the Ordnance Survey map.

Local climate

The Lodge receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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