Cow Lane Lodge To Pendley Manor

SP 91 SW 4/57

TRING COW LANE (East side) Cow Lane Lodge to Pendley Manor

15.1.86

II Gate lodge.Circa 1875 for Joseph Grant Williams Esq. presumably by Walter F.K. Ryan, the architect for Pendley Manor (q.v.) built c.1874-5 in similar style. Red painted timber frame on yellow brick plinth with red brick infill to ground floor in herringbone and other patterns, and scalloped red tilehanging to 1st floor, decorative incised stucco panels over stucco cove in top of front gable, and steep red tile roofs carried down over timber framed open side porch with brick sill next the drive. A small 2-storeys Jacobean style gate lodge facing W with porch set back on N side. Front has canted brick bay on ground floor with stone quoins and window dressings, a tiled pentice over carried on heavy timber braces from stone corbels, and a 3-light oriel window with ogee plastered lower part. Stucco cove and ornamental infill over below moulded bargeboard with pendant. Tall red brick pilastered chimneys with corbelled caps.

Listing NGR: SP9372111819