Kingfisher Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Kingfisher Lodge

WRENN ID
blind-newel-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1987
Type
House
Address
Kingfisher Lodge, Henley Road, Medmenham, SL7 2EY
OS grid reference
SU 817 842
Coordinates
51.55111, -0.82295
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kingfisher Lodge is a house that was formerly a gardener's cottage for Wittington, built around 1898 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for Hudson Ewbanke Kearley. The structure is made of red brick with a colourwashed roughcast base and features chamfered quoins of Ham stone. It has flat wooden eaves and a hipped roof covered with Westmorland slate. The building is small and consists of one storey with an attic.

The west front includes a small sash window with a gauged brick head to the right, a hipped dormer with a sash window and slate cheeks, and a six-panelled door to the left that has a leaded fanlight and a segmental wooden cornice hood supported by shaped scroll brackets. There is a projecting brick wall to the left with stone coping and a stone ball finial on the front pier.

On the south front, there are three-pane sashes flanking later 20th-century French doors, all featuring gauged heads and stone keyblocks, along with three hipped dormers similar to those on the west front. The French doors are accessed via a brick bridge over a stream. There is also a later garage extension at the rear.

Local climate

Kingfisher Lodge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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