Lodge west of the Natural History Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Lodge. 89 related planning applications.
Lodge west of the Natural History Museum
- WRENN ID
- muffled-ashlar-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Lodge west of the Natural History Museum, Queens Gate, London, SW7 5BD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 265 790
- Coordinates
- 51.49644, -0.17882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lodge located to the west of the Natural History Museum was built as a pair of houses in 1883 by Alfred Waterhouse. It is currently undergoing refurbishment as of 2016. The building is constructed of buff terracotta and features a slated roof.
The lodge has two storeys, with the ground floor situated at garden level, which makes it appear as a single-storey dwelling from the street. It has a projecting central bay beneath a hipped roof, which includes a pair of dormer windows on both the west and east elevations, each set beneath gablets. The roof is adorned with a central ornate chimney stack and two finials at the ends. There are single round-arched windows on the ground floor to the east and west, as well as on the first floor to the north and south. Wide-arched entrances are located at both the north and south sides of the building. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Lodge west of the Natural History Museum sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 89 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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