Description

TQ 2782 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PRINCE ALBERT ROAD, NWl
23/6 (east Side)
5.2.70 Nuffield Lodge
(formerly Grove Lodge)
G.V. I
Formerly Grove Lodge. Regent's Park villa. 1822-24,by Decimus Burton as bachelor
residence for G B Greenhough; heightened and turned into family house by Henry Marley
Burton in 1877 and interior murals painted c1909 by the then owner Sigismund Goetze.
Stucco; slate roof. The least altered of the Regent's Park villas set in
grounds separated from Park by the Grand Union Canal. Chaste but varied Grecian
villa design built on a cruciform plan of 2 storeys with recessed single storey
bays in the angles and single storey bow to east front, the angle bays and bow
heightened by Marley Burton to complete the house as a uniform block. 2 storeys
and basement. West entrance front 7 windows wide with blind outer panels and
advanced centre bay incorporating porch with Greek Doric columns in antis.
South garden front of 5 windows with centre 3 screened by giant tetrastyle
portico with fluted Ionic columns and pediment against parapet. East garden
front of 5 windows with 3-window central bow dressed with Doric pilaster order
on each floor. North front with outer windows flanking advanced centre with
tripartite ground floor window and 2 windows above. Recessed sashes, with
glazing bars on ground floor, mostly in eared architraves with consoled
cornices to those on ground floor. Very fine interior with central, domed and
colonnaded rotunda and vaulted vestibule; drawing room murals and vestibule
vault paintings by Sigismund Goetze; Graeco-Roman enriched mouldings, statuary
marble chimneypieces and later elaborations in Dixhuitiime taste; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2725082882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Nuffield Lodge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17527342

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)