Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges is a Grade II* listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. Country house subsidiary structure.
Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges
- WRENN ID
- dim-hinge-thyme
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- Country house subsidiary structure
- Address
- Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges, Middleton Stoney
- OS grid reference
- SP 525 232
- Coordinates
- 51.90526, -1.23788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Middleton Park service wing and the southern pair of forecourt lodges are subsidiary parts of a country house, now divided into dwellings. They were designed in 1938 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lutyens for the 9th Earl of Jersey. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and feature a plain-tile roof with rubble stacks.
The single-storey service range is hidden from the forecourt by a solid wall that has three gateways with rusticated doorcases and finely turned wooden grilles. On the garden side, there is a re-used wall from the demolished 18th-century mansion, which includes an Ionic colonnade and niches, along with shuttered sashes that match those on the main house; the sashes in the colonnade are late 20th-century insertions.
The linked lodges, which have pyramid roofs, are two storeys tall with attics and feature a two-window arrangement of two-light shuttered casements. They also have hipped roof dormers and an apex stack. The lodge next to the forecourt entrance has a pedimented rusticated doorway and is connected by a short section of wall containing another doorway to one of the entrance piers, which bears a stone eagle by Sir W. Reid Dick. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Middleton Park Service Wing and Southern Pair of Forecourt Lodges sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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