Panshanger South Lodge With Gate Piers And Gatehouse

HERTINGFORDBURY COLE GREEN TL 21 SE 5/52

(Northeast side) No. 1 (Panshanger South Lodge) with Gate Piers and Gatehouse II

Lodge to Panshanger Estate (q.v.). c.1830-40 for 5th Earl Cowper . Stock brick, rendered dressings. Slate roofs. Tudor Revival Style. 1 storey. 1 bay to each side of square main block. To front a 2 light small pane casement with Gothic leaded lights, chamfered surround with Tudor arched outer head, hood mould. Above a recessed plaque with Cowper arms, hood mould. 2 stage set back buttresses. Cornice to tall coped parapet. Left end to drive has projecting entrance porch, steps up to door with chamfered Tudor arched surround. Cornice to tall coped parapet. Blind lancet over porch, parapet and buttresses as to front. To rear as at front with shield on plaque showing a tree. Right end slightly extruded stack with 3 octagonal shafts. Extending to right and to rear is a lower range, a single light casement to front, parapet, similar casements to rear. Interior not inspected. Extending to left across drive are iron gates with X bracing, spear headed railings. 2 octagonal buttressed ashlar piers with moulded cornices to larger octagonal caps. Small gatehouse attached to left end of gates is red brick, square on plan. Facing lodge are steps up to a plank and muntin door with a rendered chamfered Tudor arched surround. Above a blind lancet, cornice to coped parapet. To front and rear are Gothic single light casements with hood moulds. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TL2819611667