Avenham Park Lodge

Avenham Park Lodge

Avenham Park Lodge, also know as the Park Keeper’s Lodge, while modest in scale, forms an integral part of the original Victorian design of Avenham Park. Constructed in the 1860s to house park staff, the lodge reflects the care with which the park was conceived as a civic landscape of national standing. Its architecture, though not individually remarkable, is typical of the picturesque domestic style often employed for park lodges of the period, designed to harmonise with the surrounding greenery rather than dominate it.

The building’s value lies in its context. Together with Miller Park, Avenham Park is recognised as one of the finest examples of Victorian municipal parks in the country. Both parks are Grade II* Listed. The lodge contributes to this completeness of design, embodying the practical and ornamental functions that characterised mid-nineteenth-century public parks. As a familiar point of reference and a reminder of the park’s continuous care and use over more than 150 years, the lodge remains a significant element of Preston’s heritage.