King Johns Hunting Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. A Medieval House.
King Johns Hunting Lodge
- WRENN ID
- solemn-vault-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- King Johns Hunting Lodge, Old Ferry Drive (Off), Wraysbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 996 745
- Coordinates
- 51.46099, -0.56716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King John's Hunting Lodge is a late 15th to early 16th century timber-framed house that was restored in 1930 and again in 1978. It stands three stories tall and features a two-story jettied porch connected to a former aisled hall on the south side. The building has an old tiled gabled roof and its timber-framed walls are infilled with plaster and brick nogging, although some sections have been replaced with modern brick. The windows are modern leaded casements.
The porch showcases a four-centred arch with quatrefoils in the spandrels, and the first floor has a three-light window with wooden mullions. Inside, the lodge contains many original timbers and moulded beams, including a 16th to 17th century door with lambs tongue stops on the ground floor. The main fireplaces on both the ground and first floors date to the 16th century and feature four-centred stone arches with foliage carving in the spandrels. The hall, which is open to the roof, has two arcade posts with moulded capitals on the south wall, flanking a later fireplace.
The building has been extensively restored and remodelled in modern times, incorporating some reused timbers and modern leaded casement windows. Notably, a 14th century scissor brace truss has been inserted, along with a redundant moulded crown post. A moulded beam, likely from around 1500, runs east-west at the north end under a gallery, adding to the historical interest of the structure.
Local climate
King Johns Hunting Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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