Lower Lodge

SJ 54 SE SJ 5724 4262 2/37

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. BLACK PARK Lower Lodge

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Farmhouse, now store. Early to mid-C17 with some late C19 alterations. Pebbledashed timber frame with brick nogging, north-west gable end partly rebuilt in red brick. Plain tile roof. Baffle-entry plan of 3 framed bays. 2 storeys and attic. South-west front: brick ridge stack off- centre to left with stepped weathering and external brick end stack to right. 3-window front; C19 two-light wooden casements, only 2 to first floor at right. Ground-floor windows boarded at time of survey (October 1986). Boarded door off-centre between first and second windows from left with evidence of former small gabled wooden porch. Left-hand gable end with evidence of former one-storey lean-to brick addition, first-floor 2-light wooden casement and boarded door to left. Small attic wooden casement in right-hand gable end. Rear: central gable. 3 first-floor C19 two-light wooden casements, larger boarded ground-floor window to right, and 2 small casements to right, that to left C20 metal and that to right C19 two-light wooden. Central one-storey timber framed (square panels incorporating reused timbers) lean-to with boarded central window, boarded door to left and open doorway to right (no door at time of survey). Interior only partly inspected. Left-hand ground-floor room with chamfered ceiling beam, plain joists and chamfered wall plate.

Listing NGR: SJ5724942613