Park Lodge

OVERBURY CP - SO 9637 - 9737 10/126 Park Lodge GV II

Lodge to Overbury Park. 1902-3 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with overhanging bracketted eaves, gable-end parapets with ball finials and ashlar ridge stack with moulded capping. Also limestone rubble west end chimney with tiled offsets and two shafts. L-plan, main range of three bays aligned east/west with single-bay south wing. Single storey and attic with chamfered plinth and attic-level string course to south wing. South front elevation: windows all have leaded casements. Main part has a single-light ground floor window with a dripstone and, to left, the main entrance with a moulded flat canopy on plain corbels and a half-glazed door. South gable end to left has two ground floor 2-light chamfered mullioned windows and a 3-light chamfered mullioned attic window, all with hoodmoulds. East gable end facing road has an ashlar canted bay window with a moulded cornice and a 2- light chamfered mullioned attic window above with a hoodmould. The date AD 1903 is inscribed on a quoin to the left side of the east gable end. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9601737821