Lodge About 300 Yards North Of Downton Castle

SO 47 NW LEINTWARDINE CP -

2/55 Lodge about 300 yards north of Downton Castle

GV II

Lodge. Circa 1861. Dressed sandstone and brick. Timber-frame with plaster infill. Tiled roof and stone stack. L-plan with arms to east and north. Cellar, one storey and attic. East elevation has gable front with 3-light casement to attic and canted bay window with two forward-facing lights to ground floor. Above the attic window is a brattished cambered collar and a row of three framed quatrefoils. Above the hipped roof of the bay window is another row of decorated timber-framed panels. The outer panels have quatrefoils with spurs; the inner ones have quadrant curves to each corner. Brackets at eaves level have carved wooden eagles. Beneath the brackets are corner posts with slender attached twisted shafts; Gable finial and pendant. Attached to left is a porch under a catslide roof which on its open south side has six panels with ogeed cinquefoiled heads and quatrefoil tracery. Each panel is divided by an iron bar with fleur-de-lys finial. Entry from porch into south wall has ledged door. South elevation has timber-framed oriel supported from corbel set in deep sandstone plinth and gable decoration in form ofsaltire crosses. Attached to west end is brick flat-roofed late C20 extension (not of special interest). Interior has pegged roof trusses with collars supproted by angle struts. Cellar contains bread oven, copper and stone sink. Attached to south side is parapet of Bridge (qv) over Stone Brook. Downton Castle (qv) is in Downton CP.

Listing NGR: SO4453575092