Nuffield Lodge

Nuffield Lodge, formerly known as Grove Lodge, is a Grade I listed villa located in Regent's Park, built between 1822 and 1824 by Decimus Burton as a bachelor residence for G B Greenhough. In 1877, Henry Marley Burton heightened the building and transformed it into a family house, while the interior murals were painted around 1909 by the then owner, Sigismund Goetze. The villa is constructed of stucco with a slate roof and is noted for being the least altered of the Regent's Park villas, set in grounds that are separated from the park by the Grand Union Canal.

The design of Nuffield Lodge is a restrained yet varied Grecian style, built on a cruciform plan with two storeys and a basement. It features recessed single storey bays in the angles and a single storey bow on the east front, which were heightened by Marley Burton to create a uniform appearance. The west entrance front has seven windows, with blind outer panels and an advanced central bay that includes a porch supported by Greek Doric columns in antis. The south garden front has five windows, with the central three screened by a giant tetrastyle portico featuring fluted Ionic columns and a pediment against the parapet. The east garden front also has five windows, with a three-window central bow adorned with Doric pilasters on each floor. The north front presents outer windows flanking an advanced centre that has a tripartite ground floor window and two windows above.

The windows are mostly recessed sashes with glazing bars on the ground floor, framed in eared architraves with consoled cornices. Inside, the villa boasts a very fine interior that includes a central domed and colonnaded rotunda, a vaulted vestibule, and murals in the drawing room and vestibule vault painted by Sigismund Goetze. The interior also features Graeco-Roman enriched mouldings, statuary marble chimneypieces, and later embellishments in the style of the 18th century.