North Lodge to Danesfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1977. House.
North Lodge to Danesfield House
- WRENN ID
- final-glass-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- North Lodge to Danesfield House, Henley Road, Medmenham
- OS grid reference
- SU 818 848
- Coordinates
- 51.55692, -0.82102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Lodge to Danesfield House is a former lodge that has been converted into a house, dated 1844 on a heraldic plaque with the initials SM (Scott-Murray). It is likely designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, who also designed the Roman Catholic chapel in the grounds of Danesfield. The building features knapped flint with brick quoins and brick and ashlar dressings. It has a plain tile roof adorned with ornamental ridge tiles, waved wooden bargeboards with wooden finials, and a central chimney with a group of six diagonal brick shafts.
The lodge is approximately cruciform in shape, with gabled bays to the north, east, and west, a gabled porch to the south, and small lean-tos in the north angles. It stands two storeys tall. The north gable includes a two-storey canted bay window with stone mullions and leaded lights, topped with a hipped tile roof, and a date plaque on the right return wall. To the left, there is a lean-to with a wooden casement, and to the right, a lean-to porch featuring an arched stone light at the front and a studded door within a four-centred chamfered brick arch on the right side. A similar arch is present over the south door. The west gable has a single-storey bay window and a two-light wooden casement in a chamfered brick surround above. The remaining windows are also wooden casements. The north and west gables are topped with finials that display heraldic iron flags.
Local climate
North Lodge to Danesfield House 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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