The Lower Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. Lodge house.
The Lower Lodge
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-steeple-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2000
- Type
- Lodge house
- Address
- The Lower Lodge, Old Bristol Road, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 549 470
- Coordinates
- 51.22067, -2.64684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lower Lodge is a lodge house for an estate, built in 1865. It is constructed from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plain clay tiled roof adorned with bands of scallop tiles and ornamental clay ridge tiles, as well as overhanging verges and an ashlar stone triple chimney stack. The building is designed in a picturesque Tudor Gothic style.
The exterior is single storey and consists of two bays, with the first bay projecting as a gable. This projection includes an angled bay window with one central light and three lights on each side, all pointed arched and set beneath a hipped tiled roof. Above the window, in the gable, is a plaque featuring a heraldic device and the date. The second bay contains the entrance, which is sheltered by a lean-to roof supported by a timber corner post. The door is protected by a 20th-century timber enclosure beneath the porch roof. To the right of the door is a small quatrefoil window, and there is a similar quatrefoil window set high in the east gable.
The interior has not been inspected. The Lower Lodge is noted as a complete example of the picturesque Tudor Gothic style.
Local climate
The Lower Lodge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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