Manor Lodge School

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SHENLEY RIDGE HILL (south side) RECTORY LANE Manor Lodge School

(Formerly listed as Shenley Lodge, RIDGE HILL)

II Large house, health resort at time of listing, opened as a school in 1991. C18, much altered first half C19. Extended later C19 and c.1900. Stuccoed brick. Slate roof. Two storeys, basement and attic. Seven bays. Central entrance in projecting porch addition of c.1900: banded rustication, pulvinated frieze, modillioned cornice and parapet. Flanking three central bays are giant pilasters. First floor: keyed arch to central Venetian window. Flanking glazing bar sashes with bracketed floating cornices, ground floor left has similar windows and two basement windows. Modillioned cornice, parapet, scrolled panel to centre. Mansard roof. Ground floor right has link from porch across front to c.1900 ballroom extension projecting forward from right end. Extension bowed to front. Right return has tripartite sash and keyed oculus. To left: late C19 extension of one bay and link set back slightly.

Rear: full height canted bay to centre rising to semi-octagonal mansard. Ground floor right, iron verandah. Plat bands separate storeys to left and centre. Rectangular bay projects to right on late C19 extension.

Interior: features largely C19.

Listing NGR: TL2019702247