Icehouse Lodge

Icehouse Lodge is a roadside lodge dating to 1827, situated on the south side of Audley End Park, near a gatehouse and contiguous with the park’s boundary wall. It was possibly designed by Buckler and Rickman. The lodge is constructed of red and yellow brick, with flint facing, and has a clay tiled roof. It has a T-shaped plan, comprising the original north-south alignment and a 20th-century extension centrally on the east side.

The west front is of yellow brick, featuring a symmetrical two-window range of double casement windows in chamfered reveals with labels. The window frames are wooden with a hollow chamfered central mullion and glazing bars, arranged as 4x4 panes. Knapped flint panels are flush-worked around the windows. A projecting red brick porch is centrally positioned, with diagonal buttresses, a parapet, and a moulded string course broken over a roundel. The archway has a four-centred head, as does the inner doorway, and the door is framed with recessed panels, with upper panels in lancet form.

The south elevation is of red brick, similar to the boundary wall on either side, with the lodge projecting slightly. It features a central two-light casement window with a label, similar to those on the west front. Shaped and pierced bargeboards are present, with a prominent central pendant. The north elevation has a yellow brick gable with knapped flint and flush-work panels. A central three-cant bay window has a shaped cornice and parapet with coping. The central three-light casement window has glazing bars, arranged as 6x5 panes, with side cants featuring similar single casement windows, each with 2x5 panes. Above is an attic light, four-centred arched, with plain glazing. To the left is a grouping of three octagonal chimney shafts in moulded red brick, with shaped heads and moulded bases, rising from the junction of the 19th-century block and the 20th-century extension. There are two gabled dormer windows with sliding sashes arranged as 4x3 panes on either side of the grouped chimney stacks.

The 20th-century extension to the east is of red brick, slightly lower in height and with a hipped roof with gablets at the east and west ends. It has three 20th-century double casement windows on the long north and south sides, with glazing bars arranged as 4x5 panes. The east end has a French window with glazing bars, each leaf arranged as 3x7 panes. The interior was not inspected.