Hawkstone Lodge

WESTON-UNDER- WESTON SJ 5628-5728 REDCASTLE C.P. 17/193 Hawkstone Lodge - 22.8.86 GV II Shown on O.S. map as Weston Lodge. Entrance lodge. Circa 1853-4 with minor later additions and alterations. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, corner panels and moulded plinth; machine tile roofs with ornamental cresting and elaborately decorated cusped bargeboards with pointed finials and pendants. T-plan with long range to rear and 2-storey porch to front forming cruciform shape; in a Victorian Tudor style. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance side: 3-light cusped stone mullion windows with moulded dripstones and similar 2-light windows to first floor to left and right of central 2-storey porch; small cusped windows immediately below eaves have gables above. Porch has 4-centred outer arch with one order of shafts and quatrefoil decoration to spandrels; half-glazed door with Gothic tracery decoration. Crenellated oriel window above. Similar oriel windows to first floor of gable ends with plain shield decoration to cills. Prominent central red brick ridge stack has 4 attached octagonal stone shafts with moulded capping and blind Gothic tracery to bases. Rear range has similar windows to front and central ridge stack with 2 octagonal shafts. The lodge was built when a drive linking Weston with Hawkstone Hall (q.v. under Hodnet C.P.) was made in 1853-4.

Listing NGR: SJ5660828806