Western Lodge And Grey Lodge

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE WHITESMOCKS NZ 24 SE (East side)

4/471 Western Lodge and Grey Lodge

GV II

Villa, now 2 separate houses. Early C19 incorporating early C18 house in rear wing. Incised stucco with plinth and painted ashlar dressings; rear wall of wing English garden wall bond brick (5 and one); Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys and yellow pots. Main elevation: 2 storeys, 3 and 4 bays; giant pilasters frame end bays; sash windows have glazing bars and projecting stone sills. Left return entrance to Grey Lodge has bracketed hood; right return has principal entrance at right in Ionic porch, and 2-storey square projecting bay at left under hipped roof. Low-pitched hipped roof has ridge chimneys with octagonal pots. Rear wing has 16-pane sashes.

Interior: original 6-panel doors and architraves, and corniced chimney-pieces, throughout; entrance loggia has tiled floor and arcaded windows; re-used early C18 stair of one long flight and long landing balustrade has panelled closed string, moulded panelled handrail on turned balusters, square newels with half- balusters. Rear wing has moulded beams in kitchen.

Listing NGR: NZ2605743580