Entrance Lodge To Clarendon School

The entrance lodge to Clarendon School, originally part of Hawnes, was built in 1873 for the Reverend Lord John Thynne. It is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features clay tile roofs adorned with decorative ridge cresting. The building has an L-plan layout, is one storey high with attics, and includes mostly mullioned windows, some with cambered heads, many set into pointed-arched recesses that have decorative banding at the tops. The road-facing gable features a canted bay with a tiled sloping roof and a lean-to porch at the angle. A stone band at the first floor level displays inscriptions on each elevation along with some foliate patterning, reading: "JAYE BONNE CAUSE"; "LOYAL DEVOIR"; "FUTURUM INVISIBLE"; "ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLXXXIII"; "DEO PATRIAE AMICIS". The gable ends are decorated with pierced bargeboards and distinctive wrought iron finials shaped like sunflowers.