White Lodge is a Grade I listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1981. House. 14 related planning applications.
White Lodge
- WRENN ID
- peeling-hearth-wind
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Lodge, TW10 5HR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 206 732
- Coordinates
- 51.44518, -0.26484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Lodge is a Grade I listed building located in Richmond Park, constructed between 1727 and 1729 based on designs by Henry, Earl of Pembroke, likely with assistance from Roger Morris. Originally built as a hunting lodge for George II, it features a combination of stone and brick with a green slate roof. The garden front has two storeys, with a basement on the sides and a single tall storey plus basement in the central three bays. The entire structure is five bays wide, with the basement rusticated in the central bays, which include central staircases leading to the first floor and segmental-headed windows. Above, Doric engaged columns support an entablature and pediment. The outer windows in the basement are square with keystones, while those on the first floor are pedimented.
Later brick wings, designed by Roger Morris and S Wright, can be seen from the entrance court and are connected to the main building by curved screens featuring five niches on each side, designed by Thomas Wright. A porte cochere was added by James Wyatt in 1801. The building has been known as White Lodge since 1768, with alterations made by Repton in 1816 and a modern picture gallery extension added. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
White Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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