Royal Lodge

Royal Lodge is a large house located in Old Windsor, with origins dating back to the late 18th century and significant alterations and extensions made in the 20th century. The exterior features painted render and a low pitch slate or lead roof, which is not visible behind the parapet. The building has an irregular plan, with the central section consisting of three storeys and a basement, while the remainder has two storeys.

The windows are designed with mullions, transoms, and glazing bars, and there are string courses at the heads of the ground floor windows and the sills of the first floor windows. The parapet cornice of the lower wings continues as a string at the sill level of the third floor windows in the central section, which also has a similar parapet cornice.

The entrance front faces east and is symmetrical, featuring a central section of eight bays. To the left, there is a three-bay lower section that projects slightly, while the right section projects much further and includes a three-bay return on the south side. The first-floor windows have square hoodmoulds. The entrance porch, which projects from the left section, has a parapet and diagonal buttresses, and it contains a 20th-century panelled half-glazed door.

On the garden elevation to the west, the five-bay central section is divided by slim pilasters that rise through the frieze, cornice, and parapet to gabled finials. The ground floor windows are Tudor-arched with tracery and are topped by a continuous ogee dripmould.

Historically, a cottage orne designed by Nash previously occupied the site but was demolished by Queen Adelaide. The only remaining part of that structure is the dining room, which was later converted into a drawing room and added by Wyatville around 1820.