West Lodge to Danesfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1981. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
West Lodge to Danesfield House
- WRENN ID
- first-cellar-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1981
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- West Lodge to Danesfield House, Henley Road, Medmenham, SL7 2EY
- OS grid reference
- SU 812 843
- Coordinates
- 51.55231, -0.83006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lodge to Danesfield House is a former lodge that has been converted into a house, dated 1874, as indicated by a plaque featuring the arms of Charles Robert Scott Murray. The building is likely designed after the style of Augustus Pugin, who constructed the Roman Catholic chapel in the grounds of Danesfield. It is built of knapped flint with brick quoins, flush strings, and surrounds for the openings. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features crow-stepped gables with pyramidal brick coping and moulded brick kneelers. There is a central square brick chimney with offsets and 'V' pilasters. The structure is one and a half storeys tall and has two bays. The windows are wooden cross windows with chamfered brick surrounds, which have pairs of small four-centred arches set below a four-centred flush relieving arch. A central two-storey projecting porch has a crow-stepped gable, a board door in a four-centred chamfered arch, a stone lozenge with the coat of arms, and a pair of first-floor lights with a four-centred relieving arch. In 1984, a single-storey extension matching the original design was added to the right side.
Local climate
West 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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