The Lodge And Stables To South East

MALDON

TL8407SE LODGE ROAD 574-1/6/131 (North East side) 24/09/71 The Lodge and stables to south-east (Formerly Listed as: LODGE ROAD The Lodge)

GV II

Officers' mess, later used as hospital, now old people's home. Early C19. Grey Gault brick with some white weatherboarding and slate hipped roofs with numerous rendered stacks. L-plan form. EXTERIOR: substantially of single storey, but with lower storey built into hill slope as sub-basement. The short south-west elevation of main block has two 12-pane sash windows with sills at ground level. To the east of these is a projecting parapeted corner block with a door in the flank and a small-paned sash window with shutters. Linking to the corner of this is a length of wrought-iron handrail with Gothick balustrade. The long north-west face of the rear block has two 12-pane sash windows with reeded surrounds. The shorter south-west face of this part has a slate hipped bay window, a C20 lean-to greenhouse and a bell cupola on roof with lead covoid roof, finial, and frilly eaves. The south-east elevation is partly of white boarding and has 3 lead-covered flat-roofed dormers and slated lean-to. The 2-storey north-east elevation has white weatherboarding over painted brick and four 12-pane sash windows on 1st floor. The ground floor has 4 small-paned horizontal-sliding casement windows; 2 doors, C20 small-paned French window and tall stack. Single-storey stable block to south-east of brick with hipped plain tile roof and 2 circular windows with radiating glazing bars. INTERIOR: some early C19 detail including reeded door architraves with roundels in corners. HISTORY: thought to be former officers' mess during Napoleonic Wars, later used as hospital.

Listing NGR: TL8456407283