Avenue Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. Pavilion.

Avenue Lodge

WRENN ID
sacred-paling-wren
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Richmond upon Thames
Constituency
Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 May 1983
Type
Pavilion
Address
Avenue Lodge, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Kew Green, TW9 3AB
OS grid reference
TQ 186 764
Coordinates
51.47414, -0.29261
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Avenue Lodge is a Grade II* listed building located in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, designed in 1866 by William Eden Nesfield. This simple square pavilion is a single storey structure made of red brick with a tiled roof, featuring dormers.

The building has stubby pilasters between wooden mullioned and transomed windows, and a heavy coved cornice adorned with incised pie decoration. Its steeply pitched pyramidal roof is complemented by double pedimented and segmental dormers. A massive central chimney stack showcases elaborate moulded brick ornamentation.

Avenue Lodge is an early example of the "Queen Anne" style, which was later popularized by Nesfield's former partner, Norman Shaw, in the 1870s.

Local climate

Avenue 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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