The Hunting Lodge

TL 41NW WARE RURAL BLAKESWARE

3/5 The Hunting Lodge (Formerly listed under Blakesware 23.12.74 Estate)

GV II

Model estate buildings, being converted to a house. 1870's probably by George Devey who rebuilt Blakesware for Mrs Gosselin 1876-9. A compact one and a half storeys group comprising a hall for estate dinners and functions on the N side, a large open sided carriage-house of equal size adjoining the S side of the hall, and a smaller generator house at the W end of the carriage- house. Red brick in English-bond with blue brick used for the lower parts of the square piers of the carriage house. E gable carriage-house dark weatherboarded but decorative timberframing with patterned brick nogging to other gables. Steep tiled roofs with upper part of E and W gables of hall projected in a hipped hood over upper glazed doors and former balcony. Gabled dormer windows in N roofslope and W side of roof of Generator house. S elevation has 6 bays formed by brick piers with primitive oak capitals and pads carry the wide-scan, kingpost, open roof of the carriage-house. Similar piers to the loggia at W end of hall. N elevation has 2 dormers in the roofslope and 5 windows. These are timber casement windows with leaded glazing under wide segmental arches. Similar arches to doors. Large chimney in valley between parellel roofs of N and S ranges. Decorative estate buildings of high quality.

Listing NGR: TL4057316386