Milton Lodge

SP 9630-9730 MILTON BRYAN LONDON ROAD (B528) 12/60 - Milton Lodge GV II Entrance lodge to Battlesden House (now demolished). Probably c1860-1868 by G H Stokes (advised by Sir Joseph Paxton) for Sir Edward Page-Turner. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Small T-plan structure of one storey and attics. 2 and 3-light moulded mullion and transom windows. These have brick aprons, and cornices of brick surmounted by ashlar. SE gable has canted bay to ground floor. Porch within E angle. 6-panel door, rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave with heavy keystone and impost blocks. Moulded string course at first floor level to main elevations. Stone coping to gables and parapets. Variety of decorative stone finials to gables. 2 slightly projecting chimney stacks, one to side wall of each block, both with moulded stone cornices. D Bassett, "G H Stokes at Battlesden and Belle Vue", Architectural History, vol 26, 1983, pp 92-5. Beds Record Cffice: T18/36, lease of 1868.

Listing NGR: SP9660530562