Devonshire Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Devonshire Lodge
- WRENN ID
- mired-lime-elder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Devonshire Lodge, 26 and 28, Finchley Road Nw8, City of Westminster, NW8 6ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 266 835
- Coordinates
- 51.53701, -0.17577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Devonshire Lodge comprises two semi-detached villas dating from approximately 1830 to 1840, built as part of the Eyre Estate. The buildings are constructed of stucco with a slate roof and are designed in a Grecian style. They are two storeys high with a central, pedimented attic. Each villa is two windows wide, with a recessed entrance bay. The doorways feature pilasters and entablatures; the one at No. 28 has been altered. The windows are architraved sashes and casements. The main block has quoin pilasters and pilasters flanking the party wall recess. A simplified entablature sits below the flat eaves of the hipped roof, and is broken by the central two-window pedimented attic. Cast iron balconies with anthemion and geometric patterns are present on the first-floor windows. No. 28 was the residence of the poet Thomas Hood from 1844 to 1845, commemorated by an LCC plaque. Between approximately 1900 and 1961, Devonshire Lodge housed the St John’s Wood Art Club, whose members included artists such as Alma-Tadema, Dendy Sadler, Alfred Gilbert, Charles and C.A. Voysey. The buildings are listed Grade II* for their artistic and historical associations.
Local climate
Devonshire Lodge 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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