Moorwood Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 March 1998. Lodge.

Moorwood Lodge

WRENN ID
turning-casement-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 March 1998
Type
Lodge
Address
Moorwood Lodge, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
OS grid reference
SJ 237 039
Coordinates
52.62789, -3.12812
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Moorwood Lodge is a simple Tudor-Gothic style lodge built in the 19th century, featuring one-and-a-half storeys. The building consists of a gabled main range with wings on the left and right. The right wing is set further back and includes a porch at the angle with the main range. The lodge is constructed of brick but is faced with snecked, rock-faced Cefn stone, complemented by hammer-dressed quoins and surrounds, cambered lintels, and coped gables topped with fleur-de-lys finials. The slate roof has crested ridges and axial stone stacks on the wings.

The main range features an ashlar canted bay with a plain parapet and a cross-window in the center. There is a similar cross-window in the left wing. The porch also has a plain parapet and contains a boarded door with iron studs and fake strap hinges. In the gable of the main range, there is a cross-window under a round head, while the wings have half-dormers supported by plain corbels and coped gables, with sash windows. The left wing has a cross-window beneath a blind trefoil in its gable end. The right wing's gable end features a similar blind trefoil above a conservatory that was added in the late 20th century. There is also a modern wing at the rear, constructed in Cefn stone.

Inside, the lower storey comprises three units, with a stairway located at the rear of the main range. The windows on the main elevations are fitted with panelled shutters, and panelled doors are used throughout the lodge.

Local climate

Moorwood Lodge receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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