The Lodge, Gaddesden Place

GREAT GADDESDEN BRIDENS CAMP TL 01 SW (West side) 3/68 The Lodge, - Gaddesden Place

• II

Gatelodge. Circa 1870 for Halsey family. Polychrome brick, Bath stone dressings, half timbering to upper parts with white brick infill, steep red tile roofs with bands of scalloped tiles. 2-storeys centre with single-storey wings N and S. Faces E onto drive by entrance gates. Centre has red brick ground floor banded in black brick, stone sills and lintels of 2-storeys canted central bay window extended as bands. Heavy wooden brackets spring from stone corbel course to support front jetty of half-timbered 1st floor. Steep faceted roof to bay. S wing has arcaded wooden recessed porch in front of boarded door and projecting chimney carried up with elaborate polychrome shaft. Rectangular 2-light bay window on S end of small projection with lean-to tiled roof on pierced brackets. Panels of encaustic tiles set in aprons of upper windows of bay. Similar recessed porch to N wing which has transomed 2-light casement and projecting N gable chimney. A coloured architect's perspective drawing of the lodge is among the estate papers at The Golden Parsonage.

Listing NGR: TL0411610916