West Lodge

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE JEPHSON GARDENS 1208-1/7/187 West Lodge (North) 25/03/70 (Formerly Listed as: JEPHSON GARDENS North Lodge)

GV II

Gate lodge. 1846. By David Squirhill. Brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: single storey, single bay with projecting entrance and window bays to south and west sides. Moulded plinth, band, rusticated band, surmounted by rusticated quoins to angles. Entrance to south side in projecting porch, a part-glazed door with blind fanlight with moulded arch with mask keystone and continuous impost band, segmental pediment; to sides of porch are round-arched 1/1 sash windows. To either side of entrance a narrow 1/1 sash window with moulded sill and rusticated quoined jambs. To west facade a projecting bay has central 1/1 sash with fanlight with tooled arch and continuous impost band, narrow 1/1 sashes to returns all with moulded sills. To either side of bay a round-arched, 1/1 sash with rusticated quoined jambs and moulded sill. C-scroll frieze, modillion cornice supports wide eaves, hipped roof and tall rear stack with cornice. North elevation has projecting apse. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Gardens were established in 1836 as a covenanted space and laid out and planted in 1846-1848. Formerly called Newbold Gardens, they were renamed after Dr Henry Jephson, a local medical practitioner of considerable repute. Forms an almost symmetrical pair with West Lodge (South) (qv). (EH Register of Parks and Gardens: FP 3265).

Listing NGR: SP3190365555