The Lodge

HARWICH

TM2430 HALL LANE, Dovercourt 609-1/10/158 (North East side) 20/06/72 No.1 The Lodge

II

House. Late C17 and early C19. Timber-framed and painted pebbledash with coated Welsh slate gabled roof. Two storeys and attics with parallel rear 2-storey range with low pitched Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: front has 2 square double-hung sash windows with moulded surrounds and square small panes and a similar narrower central window, all on first floor. Ground floor has central C19 gabled projecting enclosed porch with coated decorative Welsh slates and decorative bargeboards. Door has 4 moulded panels and plain semicircular fanlight over. Similar double-hung sash windows on northern side of porch and projecting hipped slate roofed bay with C20 metal casement windows with small panes south. Black painted pilaster strip on either side and black plinth. Gable ends have decorative moulded verges and square finial block with urn. Attic windows in gables have pointed arched heads, to the south with small pane 2-light casement (north window replaced). Central ridgeline rendered stack with 6 pots, 3 are square. North flank has two C20 metal small-pane casements at 1st-floor level and C20 lean-to conservatory. Flat-roofed projecting bay on north flank with C20 metal casements. Slated early C19 extension on rear linked to clay pantile gabled outhouse with short gable-end stack. Parallel rear range has very large and one small rendered stacks. INTERIOR: 3-bay timber frame with chamfered spine beams and lamb's tongue stops. Central stack with entrance passage 'tunnel' under. Length of early C19 staircase to attic.

Listing NGR: TM2431730896