Hensington Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1988. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Hensington Lodge
- WRENN ID
- tenth-balcony-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Hensington Lodge, Blenheim, OX20 1UL
- OS grid reference
- SP 447 165
- Coordinates
- 51.84573, -1.35159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hensington Lodge is a lodge built in 1876-1877 by F.B. Osborn. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a gabled Welsh slate roof, along with a limestone ashlar ridge stack topped with a pediment. The building has a T-plan layout and is one storey high, comprising a 7-bay range with one-bay blocks on either side of a 3-bay portico at the front. The walls are adorned with Doric pilasters. The pedimented portico includes Doric antae and corner columns, with a carving of Imperial eagles in the tympanum. The windows are plate-glass sashes set within raised architraves. The one-bay blocks flanking the portico each have a 4-panelled door with an overlight to the left and balustraded parapets topped with urns. The gable ends are stone-coped and feature urn finials. The interior has not been inspected. The lodge is included for its group value, as Blenheim Park is listed in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I.
Local climate
Hensington Lodge 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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