East Lodge Including Gate

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW POUND HOUSE LANE, Umberslade Park 652-1/2/216 (South side) 09/12/87 East Lodge including gate

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Gate lodge to Umberslade Hall (qv). Late C19. Probably by WH Bidlake for Muntz family. Stucco on buff brick with parapeted lead roofs. Late Classical style. Triumphal-arch in plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic room in centre. A tall 6/12 sash window either side of central arch has moulded eared and shouldered architrave. Moulded ribbon and laurel leaf swags above. Torus-moulded plinth and channel-jointed vermiculated quoins. A giant Roman Doric pilaster either side of arch supports a moulded entablature which continues around the lodge and, in centre, a section of moulded parapet with volutes at either end. Similar facade to rear. Within arch are two 6-panel doors either side with tooled eared architraves and a pilaster between. Buff brick semi-circular vaulted soffit over. To each return at upper stage are two 6/6 sashes in tooled eared and shouldered architraves with sills. INTERIOR: plain and simple. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: fine wrought-iron gate to south side of arch has dog-bars surmounted by panel with scroll motif and bars, shaped crest surmounted by swan. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 438).

Listing NGR: SP1418371687