Thurton Lodge On North West Side Of Drive To Langley Park

Thurton Lodge, located on the northwest side of the drive to Langley Park, is a gate lodge built around 1785 by Sir John Soane. It is constructed of gault brick with dressings made of Portland and York stone, topped with a slate roof featuring pedimented gables. The building is one storey and square in plan. The gable walls to the north and south each have a pair of recessed Tuscan columns that support a metope frieze and a gable pediment. Between the columns is a central window opening that contains a semi-circular headed sash with glazing bars, set under a rubbed brick arch. The cornice overhang, adorned with guttae, extends along the east and west walls.

On the east wall facing the driveway, there is a semi-circular headed doorway with a rubbed arch of two orders, featuring a spandrel with beaded panels and two incised quatrefoils, and a door with four flush panels. The west wall has a centrally placed blind semi-circular headed recess. A central chimney stack is located on the ridge line, decorated with dogtooth ornamentation at the cap. Inside, there is a fireplace on the west wall that contains a 19th-century iron range in an altered opening.

At the southeast corner, there is a railing screen on a low brick plinth, featuring diagonally-set square section wrought iron railings with necked and tapered finials. The square cage gate piers incorporate elongated cast iron medallions and are capped with a pair of cast roundels on scrolled bases. Two swept stay-bars are present on the north side of the pier. The gates were removed for repair at the time of the survey.