The Warneford Hospital: The Lodge and Front Garden Area Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1997. Hospital lodge.

The Warneford Hospital: The Lodge and Front Garden Area Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
brooding-railing-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1997
Type
Hospital lodge
Address
The Warneford Hospital: The Lodge and Front Garden Area Wall and Gate Piers, Warneford Lane
OS grid reference
SP 538 062
Coordinates
51.75252, -1.22093
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Warneford Hospital Lodge, located on Warneford Lane in Headington, is a house built in 1910 by N.W. Harrison. It features coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and a clay plain tile hipped roof with stone-coped gables at the front. The building has an L-shaped plan with a central entrance in the front range and is designed in a Domestic Revival style.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay northwest front. The central section is slightly advanced and has two gables with moulded stone coping and kneelers. The four-light windows are framed in ashlar with dripmoulds above, and the ground floor features a continuous string course that is interrupted by a Roman Doric stone portico at the centre, which has a round arch with a keystone. The first-floor windows have a continuous weathered cill. Between the gables, there is a dormer with a moulded cornice and a flat roof, along with a pair of symmetrically placed stacks above. At the rear, there is a two-storey canted bay window on the right wing and a central doorway with the date 1910 inscribed on the side.

In front of the house, there is a dwarf garden area wall made of coursed stone rubble with dressed stone coping, which ramps up at the ends. The central area features ashlar foot gate-piers with moulded caps. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Warneford Hospital: The Lodge and Front Garden Area Wall and Gate Piers 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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