Clawson Lodge

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE MANSFIELD ROAD 646-1/4/379 (North West side) 25/10/90 No.403 Clawson Lodge

GV II

House, now BUPA centre. 1885. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham for Mr Doubleday, lace manufacturer. Red brick, with blue brick dressings, and timber framing with patterned brick nogging. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs with 3 tall moulded brick stacks. Sandstone and blue brick plinth. Various blue brick bands to the ground floor. Windows are mainly sashes, some with wooden cross-mullioned frames. Ground floor windows segment-headed. Entrance front, to south, has to left a canted bay window, 2 storeys, 3-lights. On the ground floor, single sashes with trefoil upper lights. Above, a window with cross framed side lights. To right, a gabled porch, 2 storeys, partly filled by a C20 staircase, with a 6-panel part-glazed door and sidelights with leaded glass. Above, a timber-framed oriel window on stone brackets. Garden front, to east, has to left a wooden framed octagonal pavilion with conical roof and windows to each face with trefoil headed upper lights. To right, cross framed windows, 2 and 3-lights, with trefoil headed upper lights. Above, a similar 3-light window to left, and 2 cross framed windows to right. Rear service wing has a round tower with conical roof and lead finial. INTERIOR has original wooden stair with turned shafts and framed balusters. Moulded span beams, original doors and cornices. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 265; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 15).

Listing NGR: SK5716742455