Palm House to Nuffield Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Palm house.
Palm House to Nuffield Lodge
- WRENN ID
- gilded-lancet-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Palm house
- Address
- Palm House to Nuffield Lodge, Prince Albert Road Nw1, City of Westminster, NW8 7RN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 272 829
- Coordinates
- 51.53087, -0.16677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Palm House to Nuffield Lodge is a Grade II* listed building, constructed around 1824 by Decimus Burton. It is part of a continuous group with the stabling and was designed to act as a screen against "unpleasant objects" in relation to the villa. The structure features a glass and iron frame set on a brick plinth, with a flight of stone steps leading up to it and a tendered wall at the back. The frame is quarter-ellipsed, with closely spaced glazing bars arranged in an umbrella-like construction, supported by three concentric T-section purlins and standards at intervals. The entrance is vaulted and glazed, flanked by slender columns, and features a moulded lintel with a segmental, radial glazed fanlight-pediment above. This palm house represents one of Burton's early experiments in the structural use of iron and glass.
Local climate
Palm House to Nuffield 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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