Russett'S Lodge

TL 0338 1/130 774

PARK HILL Russett's Lodge

(Formerly listed as no. 41 (Russett's Lodge))

17.7.51.

II

Late C18 adaptation by Chambers of a small late C17 building. On a frontage of barely 20 ft, a classical design with regular pedimented facade, containing a plain 6-panel door flanked by severe stone pilasters, which support a massive entablature. A narrow window on either side of the door, a larger one on either side of the building, a small semi-circular one in the pediment. The whole lodge is built in header courses, of red brick at the sides, of mainly blue and other dark 'seconds' in front, the pediment infilled with smooth-faced blue-glazed irregularly-shaped lumps of clay, in imitation of flint-work. Heavy stone dressings: steps and plinth below, narrow band at base of windows, long-and-short quoins and window edges, and stone modillioned cornice. The whole classical lodge is added directly on to a similarly shaped C17 building in red brick (English bond), with pronounced coved eaves at a slightly lower level than Chambers' classical cornice. Red tiled roof throughout. Originally this must have been a C17 double cottage: the brick flat arch over a side door (of the unaltered section) is continued over a bricked-up space for a second such door. Moreover the pitch of (C17) roof was too steep for the correct angle of the classical pediment, which deliberately forsakes the angle of the older tiled roof behind it.

Listing NGR: TL0309538396