Easenhall Lodge

EASENHALL

1641/0/10043 MAIN STREET 23-OCT-01 Easenhall Lodge

GV II

Estate house. Circa 1871; by Joseph Goddard of Leicester; extended late C20. Polychrome red brick with blue brick and stone dressings. Steeply pitched patent tile roof with elaborate pierced bargeboards to the gable end. Brick lateral stack with stone set-offs and corbel. PLAN: T-shaped on plan with circular tower in the angle and late C20 parallel extension at the back. High Victorian Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys Asymmetrical gabled elevations. Gabled front with elaborate pierced and arched bargeboards on brackets and splayed corners with large moulded stone corbels, large 4-light mullion-transom ground floor window with carved stone coat of arms and relieving arch above and 3-light mullion-transom first floor window in pointed arch recess with stone cill; porch in angle on right with pointed timber arches with pierced spandrels and circular tower behind with moulded brick frieze of panels below glazed lantern and conical copper-clad roof. Left side has large lateral stack with stone weathering to set-offs and stone corbel and half-hipped gable projecting on left. At rear [left] a late C20 parallel brick range in similar style. INTERIOR not inspected. A good example of a High Victorian Gothic estate house.