High Lodge and Attached Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Hunting lodge.
High Lodge and Attached Walls
- WRENN ID
- vacant-truss-moon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Hunting lodge
- Address
- High Lodge and Attached Walls, Blenheim
- OS grid reference
- SP 430 155
- Coordinates
- 51.83689, -1.37661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Lodge is a hunting lodge, now a house, built around 1768 by Capability Brown. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features hipped Welsh slate roofs. The building has a three-unit plan and is designed in the Gothick style. The front facade has a three-window range, with a central three-storey tower flanked by two-storey bays. In the center, there is a three-storey canted bay window, which includes two-light pointed-arched windows with applied wood frames above a pointed-arched doorway that has a studded door. The flanking bays also have similar windows. The building features raised storey and parapet bands, along with a crenellated parapet. The sides and rear of the tower have similar windows that include sashes with octagonal panes. There are porches with crenellated parapets at the rear of the flanking bays. Behind the tower, there is a pointed-arched doorway with a studded door, and crenellated walls that enclose a yard measuring approximately 10 by 10 metres. The interior has not been inspected. The lodge stands on the site of a medieval lodge. Blenheim Park, where the lodge is located, is included in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
High Lodge and Attached Walls receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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