Dryderdale Lodge With Entrance Piers And Walls To South

SOUTH BEDBURN SHULL BANK NZ 03 SE (West side) 10/174 Dryderdale Lodge with entrance piers and walls to south GV II

Lodge, now a private house, with piers and walls formerly the entrance to Dryderdale (q.v.). Circa 1879 by Waterhouse for Alfred Backhouse. House sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Walls rubble with ashlar coping; ashlar piers. House T plan with central leg on south elevation facing former drive. South elevations one storey, 3 bays, with porch at right of projecting gabled central bay. 2 steps up to chamfered segmental-headed open arch, flanked by diagonal buttresses with offsets, under flush ashlar band and steeply-pitched gable on moulded kneelers. Short catslide roof links porch with central projection. Boarded inner door from left return of porch into catslide section. 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows in front gable and under catslide; relieving arch and slit in gable peak. Left bay has tall corniced external chimney stack, battered above eaves level; corniced chimneys on front gable ridge and on rear external stack. Right return gable similar to front. C20 flat-roofed rear extension is not of interest.

Quadrant entrance walls terminate in low chamfered piers with plinths, broached from chamfers to bands under low pointed octagonal coping.

Listing NGR: NZ0933932897