Princes Gate Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 2003. Gate lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Princes Gate Lodge
- WRENN ID
- sharp-arch-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 2003
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Princes Gate Lodge, Silk Street, Waddesdon, HP18 0JY
- OS grid reference
- SP 741 166
- Coordinates
- 51.84368, -0.92457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Princes Gate Lodge is a gate lodge dating to approximately 1880-99, built for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and possibly designed by W. Taylor of Bierton. It formed part of the entrance approach to Waddesdon Manor from the village, which was substantially rebuilt in the late 19th century.
The lodge is constructed of red brick faced in tiny rubblestones with ashlar quoins at ground floor, with tile hanging and timber framing to the gables, and a pitched tile roof with ridge tiles. Brick chimneys are corbelled and have terra cotta plaques. The design is in the Arts and Crafts style, adopting an L-shape.
The east elevation, facing Silk Street, features an advanced gable with two-storey bay windows containing six-lights with overlights and stone cross mullions; the brickwork between floors is of tiny rubblestones. A stone plaque displaying the Rothschild badge is set into the gable, which also has decorative barge boards. An entrance porch is set at an angle, with a small tile-hung gable above a brick wall. A recessed range to the side culminates in a bay window with a hipped roof on the south elevation. The rear, also facing south, has a single-storey range with a porch incorporating splat baluster railing on a dwarf brick wall, and a small gable with applied framing within the pitched roof. A one-storey rear entrance porch incorporates timber framing to the gables. The north elevation has a wide chimney breast with stone quoins, and a tall corbelled chimney stack above a pediment. An oriel window sits to the right, with a stone apron and applied timber under a gable featuring applied timber and decorative barge boards.
The interior includes a chamfered wood fireplace in the front room.
The lodge, adjacent to Princes Gate, forms a key element of the estate associated with the Grade I listed Waddesdon Manor. It shares group value with the adjacent Princes Gate and Nos. 1 and 2 Silk Street, as well as other listed buildings in the village including Nos. 93 and 94 High Street and the Five Arrows Hotel.
Local climate
Princes Gate Lodge receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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