East Lodge To Downton Hall (See Under Stanton Lacy Cp For Downton Hall)

BITTERLEY

SO57NW East Lodge to Downton Hall (see 482-1/5/60 under Stanton Lacy CP for Downton Hall)

GV II

Lodge. Dated 1857. Coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves. Central brick ridge stack with diagonally-set cluster of 4 shafts and deep oversailing cap. Plan of octagonal block with north wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement. Octagon and west side of wing with surrounding hipped slate pentice roof set on rustic log-posts with braces forming ground-floor arcade. Octagon: single-light casements with ornate leaded top lights, flat stone lintels at ground floor, C20 renewals at first floor. Inset carved stone tablet dated 1857 with initials CHRB. West side: C20 2-light casement in through-eaves gabled dormer. Ground-floor bay window with 4-light part-leaded casements with top lights over. East side: mezzanine level with stepped floors. Ground floor has 2-light casement and single-light casement. 2-light casement at basement. Left return wall to south has 4-panelled entrance door with 2 upper glazed panels and plain casement over with flat stone lintel. INTERIOR: not inspected. East lodge to Downton Hall built in 1857 as part of the estate improvements of Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton, as were South Lodge and West Lodge in the parish of Stanton Lacy.

Listing NGR: SO5416678771