Top Lodge To Alscot Park And Attached Gate And Railings

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SP2050 Top Lodge to Alscot Park and 1912-1/11/145 attached gate and railings

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Lodge, gate and railings. c1860. For Alscot estate. Brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings; shallow-pitched slate roof with brick stack. L-plan, set at angle to road, with re-entrant porch. EXTERIOR: single storey. Blue brick plinth and quoins; top modillioned brick cornice carried round gable and wide eaves and verges. Porch has round-arched opening with later plank door; small round-headed side light. Gabled wing to left has canted bay window under hipped roof and with 1:2:1 round-headed lights with blue dressings and lattice glazing; similar round-headed window to right of porch. Stack has cluster of 4 shafts connected by small arches, and cornice. Right return has 3 round-headed lights as before. Rear has 3 segmental-headed windows with lattice glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate to left has square buff-brick piers with blue brick dressings and ashlar pedimented caps; C20 gate; side screens with fishscale lattice pattern and smaller end piers. Cast-iron railings on low stone plinth have decorative heads, small gate and red brick piers.

Listing NGR: SP2022550032