The Cafe And Lodge The Arboretum

LINCOLN

SK983714SW MONKS ROAD 1941-1/13/463 The Cafe and Lodge, The Arboretum 14/05/97

GV II

Gate lodge and refreshment room. 1872. Probably designed by Edward Milner. MATERIALS: dressed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and red brick rendered and timber-framed. Welsh slate roof. Ashlar plinth and quoins. EXTERIOR: lodge. 2 storey with 3 ashlar stacks. Ashlar gabled porch to right, gives access to both buildings, with pointed arch entrance supported on single columns with carved stiff-leaf capitals. Inner doorway has 4-panel part glazed door. Abouve and behind single 3-light casement. To left 4-light chamfered mullion window with moulded hood and 4 plain sashes with horns. Above decorative timber-framing with central triangular headed plain sash window and gable with decorative bafge borarding and tall finial. West front has projecting gabled wing with central doorway flanked by 2 single light windows in chamfered surrounds, above timber-framing with projecting square section by wooden eaves brackets. South front has very large central window with pointed top, 3-light with deep chamfered ashlar mullions and transoms, lower lights have plain sashes with horns. INTERIOR: not inspected. This building was built to serve the Arboretum which was laid out between 1869 and 1972, to the designs of the improtant Victorian garden designer Edward Milner.

Listing NGR: SK9833071440