Lord's Wood is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. House.
Lord's Wood
- WRENN ID
- distant-hearth-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lord's Wood, Great Marlow
- OS grid reference
- SU 824 873
- Coordinates
- 51.579, -0.81108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lord's Wood is a house built between 1899 and 1900 for Mrs. Mary Sargant-Florence, an artist, and constructed by Streatfield. The building is designed in the Queen Anne style and features red brick with wooden eaves supported by shaped brackets, a hipped roof made of Westmorland slate, and brick chimneys. It is a double pile structure with two storeys and an attic, comprising five bays, with the outer bays slightly advanced.
Architectural details include a moulded band course at the first floor, plain brick pilasters, and barred metal casements. Each window light has two opening half-lights and curved metal stays. The outer bays contain three-light casements, while the inner bays have two-light casements. The ground floor windows have gauged brick heads with offset keyblocks. The centre bay features an Ipswich window on the first floor, complete with pilaster jambs, an architrave, a keyblock, and a panelled door set in a hipped porch with fluted pilasters and arched niches. There are also two flat-roofed three-light dormers.
The right end of the house has a continuous row of lights on the first floor, while the left end consists of two bays with bow windows on the ground floor, glazed doors above in the Ipswich window style, and a first-floor balcony with wooden railings. Although the interior has been altered, it was originally designed with bare brick walls, no doors, and no plumbing. Lord's Wood was later home to Alix and James Strachey, the brother of Lytton Strachey, who translated the complete works of Sigmund Freud.
Local climate
Lord's Wood 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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