North Lodge at Oscott College

Lodge of 1838 to Oscott College, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.

MATERIALS: the lodge is built of brick under a tile roof, with stone surrounds to window and door openings.

PLAN: the public facade of the lodge faces roughly north, and it is rectangular in plan.

EXTERIOR: the external gate is contained within a deeply-moulded stone surround, flanked by buttresses on each side. The gates are of timber with ironwork. Above this there is a stringcourse and two windows each of two lights with mouchette tracery above, each with a hoodmould. Between the windows is a carved figure of the Virgin Mary which stands in an ornate niche. At the base of the niche there is a carved figure of an angel above which is the carved pedestal for the statue. There are posts rising to each side; these support a cusped hood which itself rises which carved ballflower on each side to an ornately carved finial. There are three crosses in the brickwork above.

The elevation which faces into the college grounds has one large traceried window above the carriage arch; this is flanked by the initials 'TW' in the brickwork on each side. The lower wing to the west has paired windows in square surrounds to each floor.

INTERIOR: the lodge is accessed from a door within the carriage arch. There is a plain timber stair with chamfered newel posts and some original doors. The large room over the arch has an exposed timber truss at its centre.