Lodge To Warley Hospital And Attached Walls

Lodge to Warley Hospital and Attached Walls

This is a lodge at the entrance to Warley Hospital, built in 1889 by the architects HE Kendall and RR Pope. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressing, with a roof of machine-made flat tiles, some semicircular, laid in decorative bands and crested tiles at the roof apex. The building is situated 170 metres east of the principal hospital building and dates from the main building phase of the hospital. The lodge is designed in the Tudor Style.

The main structure consists of a two-storey rectangular block with roofs arranged as a principal north-south range and a south end cross-wing. A tower and porch are set in the internal angle on the north-east side. A narrow single-storey rectangular unit is positioned at the south end. All windows are metal-framed casements; those on the ground floor on the north and east sides have chamfered sills.

The north elevation faces the drive. A gabled single-bayed block with a diagonal buttress on the north-west corner contains a ground-floor three-cant bay window with a stone hipped castellated roof and gargoyles at the angles. The central window has 2x2 panes, and the side windows have Gothic arched heads with upper and lower panes. The first floor has a plain 2x2 paned window. To the east is a single-storey gabled porch with a low octagonal castellated tower set behind. The porch doorway has a flat-sided pointed arch with angel label stops and a plain fanlight; the door itself is a 20th-century simple door with two glazed panels.

The east elevation faces Warley Hill. The central feature is a two-storey gabled cross-wing with a single bay. On the ground floor is a plain rectangular bay window with a rebuilt parapet (now plain); the window has two mullions and one transom with 3x2 panes, and single lights to the side cants. The first floor contains a rectangular window with head stops to the label, a mullion and transom, and 2x2 panes. To the north is an octagonal tower, which is lower than the gable apex. It features a gargoyle cornice below an embattled parapet, with small cusped spherical triangular windows on the angled faces. Below this, the angles run out to a rectangular plan joining flush with the cross-wing. The ground floor has twin blocked triangular-headed windows with outer head stops. The north-east corner of the tower has a pair of angle buttresses with a broach buttress between. Above, at half height, is a small central pointed-arched window with ogee cusping. To the north is the plain side of the porch with an angle buttress. At the south end is a lesser block flush at the front, with a roof aligned north-south but a gable to the east. This gable contains a square ground-floor window with a mullion and transom and 2x2 panes, with label and stops. Above is a small rectangular roof vent. A stack with a pair of conjoined shafts is set at the south end of both the major and minor blocks.

The rear west elevation shows the principal two-storey range with a cross-wing gable at the south end. A large central projecting twin-shafted double-shouldered stack has diaper decoration in black burnt headers; similar decoration appears on the principal wall at the north end. On the ground floor, from north to south, are a diagonal buttress, the stack, two narrow segment-headed windows each of two panes, and a blocked doorway with an arched head (now with a 20th-century single casement window) followed by an angle buttress. The first floor has a rectangular window with a mullion and transom and 2x2 panes, with a label and head stop set central to the cross-wing gable. A minor first-floor projecting flue is swept into the stack on the south side. At the south end, the minor block is set well back with a roof swept out to the yard in the internal angle. A simple 20th-century door with a pair of glazed panels and simple side lights is present, together with a diagonal buttress on the south-west corner. The south end elevation shows the end gable of the minor block with a twin-shafted double-shouldered projecting stack. Behind this is the flank of the two-storey cross-wing, also with a twin-shafted stack at the east end. On the first floor is a projecting stack at the west end, corbelled out on an arch; the shafts are now missing.

Two contemporary walls project from the front of the lodge. One extends from the south-east corner as a quadrant to the road, measuring 13 metres long. The other, straight wall extends to the north from the north-east corner for 5 metres, terminating at a buttressed pier on the south side of the drive. Both walls are similar in character, with deep arch-shaped coping and old seatings for upper railings, which are now absent.

The lodge, together with Warley Hospital and Tower House, forms a group.