Paradise Lodge

SJ 6028-6128; 13/38

HODNET C.P.. Paradise Lodge

II

Estate lodge. Circa 1853-4. Red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. T-plan. A decorative Tudor Gothic style. One storey and attic. Plinth with chamfered stone top, chamfered corners with stone stops, chamfered trefoiled valences with moulded corner pendants, chamfered cinquefoiled barge boards, and ridge cresting. Central brick ridge stack consisting of octagonal shafts with moulded bases and caps. East front: 2-windows; 2-light wooden casements with chamfered stone surrounds. Central doorway with continuously-moulded archway and half-glazed panelled door with Gothic tracery. Full width 1:1:1 bay open porch consisting of octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals on pedestals with chamfered plinths, hipped-roof with chamfered trefoiled valences and moulded corner pendants, and central gabled break with chamfered cinquefoiled barge boards, finial with cinquefoil-panelled pendant and ridge cresting. Each gable end with uncarved stone shield in apex, 2-light attic casements with octagonal- pattern glazing bars, chamfered reveals and returned hoodmould, and ground-floor stone square bays with chamfered plinth, corbelled battlemented parapet and 3 x 1 stone mullioned windows with octagonal-pattern glazing bars. Hipped-roofed block in angle to south-west with sunken pathway to chamfered Caernarvon-arched boarded doorway on road. C20 addition in angle to north-west. Plain interior. This lodge is similar in design to one at Weston-under-Redcastle (q.v.) which was built when the new drive to Hawkstone Hall (q.v.) was made in 1853-4.

Listing NGR: SJ6044628703