Staghills Lodge

SD 82 SW 6/151

RAWTENSTALL, BACUP ROAD Staghills Lodge

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Gate lodge to former Staghills House (demolished), later C19. Rock-faced sandstone, steeply-pitched slate roof with chimney stack at junction of ridges bearing Tudor-style decorated clustered flues, slim gable chimneys, and corbelled extruded side wall chimney. L-shaped plan: 2 short wings at right angles with diagonal porch in the angle, projecting bay to rear of left return wall. Set back below road level, single storey front but 2-storey rear with basement. Elaborate Gothic style, with stepped dripbands on 2 levels, parapet continued over gables as stepped coping with little flat-toped pinnacle at the apex. Porch has stepped embattled parapet, Tudor-arched doorway with shield on each jamb; to right the right wing has a triangular window with trefoils, the wall above steeply gabled with an attached shaft terminating in a flat-topped pinnacle; gable of left wing has chamfered corners, both gables have a stepped triple-light window with traceried trefoil-headed lights. Left return wall has chamfered segmental-headed basement door and above this a corbelled chimney with a shield and a decorated top; projecting rear bay has stepped triple-light window.

Listing NGR: SD8278022070