Number 1, Tittenley Lodge

SJ 63 NW ADDERLEY C.P. TITTENLEY SJ 6460 3782 5/17 No.1 , Tittenley Lodge -

GV II

Entrance Lodge. 1885, attributed to Richard Norman Shaw but possibly by W.R. Lethaby. Finely-jointed orange brick with yellow/grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Pyramidal lead roof. Square plan. Neo-Georgian style. 2 storeys. Chamfered quoins and moulded dentil eaves cornice with blocking course. Central brick stack with stone base, flush stone quoins and stone coping with globe corner finials. First-floor small-paned Diocletian window with 2-light casement and gauged-brick head. Half-glazed door off-centre to left with 2 panels (lower beaded flush and upper moulded recessed) and small square window to right. Wide flat porch on deep shaped brackets (with later supports) and 5 stone steps up to door with coped low flanking walls. Return fronts, each with first-floor Diocletian window above ground-floor Venetian window consisting of small-paned lights divided by brick piers, stone cill, and gauged brick head with moulded dripstone or cornice. Rear with first-floor Diocletian window but inserted C20 ground-floor windows. Walled garden enclosure at rear with moulded stone coping and end pier with stone cap. Interior of lodge not inspected. This lodge and No. 2 , Tittenley Lodge (q.v.) flank the beginning of the public road which passes through Shavington Park (Shavington Hall demolished in 1959). Richard Norman Shaw carried out alterations at Shavington Hall for Arthur Pemberton Heywood - Lonsdale in 1885-6 but in 1903 Ernest Newton also worked at the house and probably designed other estate buildings (nos. 7 & 8, Shavington Park, Moreton Say C.P. q.v.) and it has been suggested (Dr. Richard Morrice 1986) that he may have also designed the lodges. Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), pp. 241-3 and p.430;Godfrey Rubens, William Richard Lethaby; Tim Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, Trumpet at a Distant Gate 7 London, pp. 178-9 and p181.

Listing NGR: SJ6460137813