Alwalton Lodge

ALWALTON WATER END TL 19 NW (East Side) 2/21 Alwalton Lodge GV II* House formerly a lodge. Early C19, with rebuilt porch early C17 from Dryden's House, Chesterton, Cambs; C20 alteration and addition. Ketton limestone and coursed rubble limestone with freestone dressings; C20 brick. Porch, two storeys, one bay with moulded copings to shaped gable with apex and side finials. Round headed outer archway with moulded imposts and jewelled keystone, flanking Tuscan columns on pedestals with enriched entablature; first floor three-light moulded mullioned and transomed casement window, flanking Ionic columns on pedestals with geometric designs of circles similar to pediment of gable with rectangular plaque; rectangular plaque below window. C20 inner door. Single storey range to left hand with gable end stack and transomed casement window of two-lights. The original porch to Drydens House was rebuilt as Lynch Lodge at the entrance to Milton Hall Park, Caster, Cambs: It has recently been renovated by The Landmark Trust.

V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p.133 R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p.15 Pevsner Buildings of England, p.206

Carter, J. Drawing of Dryden's House 1798. BM

Listing NGR: TL1344596095