The Lodge

The following building shall be added:

CRANFIELD LODGE ROAD The Lodge SP 9541 8/77 - II

Gate lodge of country house. 1862-4 by Thomas Hine for reverend G.G Hunter. Red brick with limestone dressings. Plain clay tile hipped roof with moulded stone eaves cornice. Brick lateral stack at rear with yellow clay pots. 2-room plan main range with central entrance lobby and staircase and with service rooms in single storey outshut and yard at back. High Victorian Gothic style. 1 storey and attic. Stone quoins, moulded cornice and string- course with band of blue tiles above. Symmetrical 2-window south west front band of blue tiles head stone windows, those on first floor in hipped half-dormers all with casements. Large central porch,its hipped roof breaking eaves, and with large stone cusped arches with curved foliate spandrels on slim columns with foliate capitals; moulded round arch doorway and plank door with wrought iron hinges. Large stone bay on left hand (NW) end with cusped lights, the corners carried on thin columns with foliate capitals and the end lights splayed back behind the columns. The right hand (SE) end has 2-light windows similar windows to those at front, first floor in hipped half dormer. At rear lateral stack rising from back wall with small half dormer to right and small walled back yard, its outshut replaced by C20 single storey flat roof extension within the walled yard. Interior: Various circa later C19 cast-iron chimney pieces with grates in chambers and right hand ground floor room. Note: This was the lodge to Cranfield Court also 1862-4 by Thomas Hine which was demolished in 1934.

Source: M. Girouard 'The Victorian Country House'.

Listing NGR: SP9520941394