West Lodge, Tunstall School (Senior Section) With Attached Garden Wall

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SW TUNSTALL ROAD 920-1/21/227 (East side) 10/11/78 West Lodge, Tunstall School (senior section) with attached garden wall (Formerly Listed as: TUNSTALL ROAD (East side) West Lodge)

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Small villa, now part of Tunstall Independent School, with wall attached enclosing garden to W. c1840 with late C19 alterations. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick and ashlar chimneys. Wall attached rubble with brick dressings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 windows; one-storey porch added at left and square projecting bay window added on right return. Central half-glazed door and overlight with glazing bars in high panelled reveals, possibly a Sunderland type door fixed back permanently, in doorcase of ashlar Tuscan columns and high entablature with blocking course. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars; giant angle pilasters; later addition of stone frieze with eaves brackets; hipped roof with ridge, left end and rear chimneys. Left porch has garden door and sidelights under single wide wedge stone lintel; right return has tripartite window in projecting bays with yellow-stain painted floral frieze; door inserted in window to right. Left return of left porch on bend of Tunstall Road has internal steps within stone surround with tongue-stopped chamfer and WEST LODGE carved above shaped arch. INTERIOR shows further high quality decorated glass of c1900 in this porch, with bulrushes, lilies, birds and foliage. Most windows have internal panelled shutters; entrance hall has egg and dart stucco cornice; some other C19 stucco detail. High wall attached runs from porch on left return along W boundary of garden and is ramped up at left over door in brick jambs.

Listing NGR: NZ3928456452