Palm House To Nuffield Lodge

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.