The Wilderness Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 2004. Gate lodge.
The Wilderness Lodge
- WRENN ID
- western-quartz-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 2004
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- The Wilderness Lodge, Waddesdon Hill
- OS grid reference
- SP 751 148
- Coordinates
- 51.82756, -0.91078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wilderness Lodge is a gate lodge to Eythrope Pavilion, built around 1885 and restored in the late 20th century. It was designed for Alice de Rothschild, likely by W. Taylor of Bierton. The lodge features red brick faced in rubble stone, with ashlar quoins, red brick stacks, and tile-hung timber-framed gables. It has a plain tile roof and is two stories tall, arranged in an L-shape.
The north-east front showcases a two-story curved bay window that was once topped with a stone balustrade. The north-west front includes a central doorway with a wooden canopy. To the left of the doorway is a tall external stack with brick diaper-work and a terracotta plaque. Adjacent to this is a projecting single-storey gabled wing that has a curved bay window, also formerly topped by a balustrade, and a timber-framed gable with a two-light casement window.
Local climate
The Wilderness 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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