Rectory Lodge and wall box is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Lodge.
Rectory Lodge and wall box
- WRENN ID
- over-ashlar-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Rectory Lodge and wall box, Heathfield, Taunton, Oake, TA4 1DP
- OS grid reference
- ST 152 267
- Coordinates
- 51.03343, -3.20953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Lodge and wall box is a lodge to Heathfield Rectory, built around 1860, likely by Edward Jeboult. The building features squared and coursed local stone with Ham stone quoins and dressings, patterned clay tiles, decorative bargeboards, and octagonal stacks on the left gable end and at the center of the right cross gable. It has a T-plan layout.
The lodge is a single storey with a two-light casement window to the left of the entrance. The right gable of the cross wing has a three-light pointed arch window with wooden mullions in a pyramid-roofed canted bay, adorned with patterned clay tiles and a trefoil in the gable end. The entrance includes a bell cast patterned clay tile gabled porch supported by decorative wooden brackets on a stone plinth, leading to a half-glazed door. On the right return, there is a single-light window on the left and a gabled top to a mullioned and transomed window on the right.
The lodge remains relatively unaltered and is styled similarly to the nearby Rectory. The wall box, dating from the 19th century, is located in the cross gable end.
Local climate
Rectory Lodge and wall box receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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