Lodge At South Entrance Of Town Thorns Including Walls And Pier Immediately South

STRETTON UNDER FOSSE - SP 47 NW 6/10017 Lodge at south entrance of Town Thorns including walls and pier immediately south - II Lodge to country house. 1873 by Alfred Waterhouse for Washington Jackson. Red brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof with paired brackets to deep eaves and lead rolls to hips and ridge. Brick axial stacks with moulded stone strings and cornices. PLAN: Cruciform plan with porch in angle. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 1 storey 3-bay E front, with central projecting wing with bowed front and 2-light round-headed window with twisted colonnet. Similar window on right. Single-light window on left and stone porch in angle with classical arch on panelled piers and moulded cornice. Similar windows on the other elevations. Rusticated stone quoins, plinth and string course below eaves: INCLUDING garden area wall and gate pier on south side facing road; low red brick wall with moulded stone coping ramped up to gateway and terminal piers; the drive entrance pier on right is much larger and of stone with panelled sides, dentiled cornice and moulded cap. INTERIOR: not inspected. SOURCE: C Cunningham. Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905, Biography of a practice, p.240.

Listing NGR: SP4476379303