White Lodge, Richmond New Park’, the Georgian Group Journal, Vol
Richard Hewlings, ‘White Lodge, Richmond New Park’, The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. XVII, 2009, pp. 41–60 TEXT © THE AUTHORS 2009 WHITE LODGE, RICHMOND NEW PARK RICHARD HEWLINGS hite Lodge takes its name from its limestone and obscures the ground floor (Fig. ). The other Wfacing, supplied, like that of many other public (Fig. ) shows the east front, and is a revelation. buildings in the reign of George I, by Christopher Heckel’s drawings, which are unexpectedly located in Cass and company. But officially it is the New Lodge a collection of views of houses of the Walpole family, in Richmond New Park, and the two ‘news’ are not prompts a re-examination of the origins of the house. complementary. The New Park was created by By all agreed tests White Lodge was a villa. But Charles I on the east side of Richmond village; the its architecture also indicates that it was a specific Old Park, beside the river, spread northwards from type of villa. It stands on ground which falls steeply Richmond Palace on the west side of the village, and to the west. The entrance is on the east side (Fig. ), is today partly absorbed into Kew Gardens. The where it is only two storeys high, but on the west New Park had a lodge for the Ranger, which survived side, whence the view across the Park is obtained, it until ; thus, from the moment of its conception has three storeys (Fig. ). The lowest floor is thus in , White Lodge was the New Lodge, and the buried on the entrance side, but on the west side it other, only ¼ mile to the south of it, was the Old has a vaulted loggia (Fig.
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