Swan Lodge

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE STREET 669-1/1/41 (West side) 01/11/72 Swan Lodge

GV II

Lodge to Audley End Park. Early C19. Flint cobble with red brick dressings in `Tudor' style, clay tiled roof. L-shaped plan of 2 parallel blocks of differing length with gable ends flush at N front. 2 storeys. N front elevation: 2 symmetrical gables with parapets, finials (one now missing) and kneelers. Single ground and first floor window to each unit in house style with chamfered brick surrounds, double casements with hollow chamfered frame and central stile, cast-iron diamond lattice casements. Central ground floor projecting red brick gabled porch with angle buttresses. Interior door has 4-centred arched overlight with radiating glazing bars, 2-leaf flush panelled door. W garden elevation: long wall of larger of 2 blocks, 3 window range, large stack with 6 diagonally set shafts at roof apex between windows N of centre. Big external stack at S end gable with 3 diagonal shafts, parapet with moulded terracotta cornice and kneelers at each end. Most windows in house style but ground floor N end window is a 3-cant bay with parapet, moulded coping and cornice and windows in house style, 1:2:1 lights. S of centre, doorway with label and brick dressings, now has C20 2-leafed door each with long central glazed panel. S end elevation: gable of long range (to W) with massive red brick external stack shouldered up to 3 diagonal shafts. To E, lesser block with gable end set back, first floor window in house style, below, timber and brick C20 lean-to with red clay tiled roof and door with upper glazing, 2x3 panes. Large adjacent 2-light window on dwarf brick wall. Inner N face of larger block has similar lean-to with similar door in S end wall. E side elevation: short N block joined to boundary wall (qv) with window in house style but now with double casement with glazing bars, in all 4x2 panes. Above, moulded cornice with twin diagonal shafted stack through roof pitch. To S, larger parallel block set back forming yard with boundary wall. 2 first floor window in house style. C20 lean-to below. Gable end stack seen on S end.

Listing NGR: TL5344938741