The Trumpeters' House is a Grade I listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1950. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Trumpeters' House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-wall-saffron
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Trumpeters' House, Old Palace Yard
- OS grid reference
- TQ 175 748
- Coordinates
- 51.46073, -0.30963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Trumpeter's House is an important early 18th-century building located on the site of the Palace Middle Gate. It was constructed for Mr. Hill, the brother of Mrs. Masham. The main facade, which faces the garden, features two storeys and is 11 bays wide, highlighted by a central portico with a pediment supported by two pairs of Doric columns and a triglyph frieze. The rear of the house faces Old Palace Yard, is also two storeys high, and consists of 10 bays arranged in a 4:1:5 pattern, with the central bay projecting and the left-hand bays set back. The building is brick-faced and has a modillion eaves cornice. The central bay is gabled and finished with late 18th-century or early 19th-century stucco. The name "The Trumpeter's House" comes from two medieval figures of trumpeters that once stood at the entrance to Old Palace Yard.
Local climate
The Trumpeters' House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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