Front Lodge And Screen Wall To Left

TM 15 NE 4/99

HELMINGHAM IPSWICH ROAD No 161 (Front Lodge) and screen wall to left

GV II

Lodge cottage, one of a pair at the entrance to the south east approach to Helmingham Hall (known as Oak Walk). Probably c.1841 by Anthony Salvin, in the Tudor Style. Red brick with diaper patterning in black headers. Octagonal corner buttresses of red brick; a continuous moulded limestone cornice at base of parapet. At the head of each buttress is a circular shaft of carved brick and terracotta onion finials. Crowstepped parapet gables with heavy corbelled finials matching those at corners. Plaintiled roofs; a pair of chimneys of red brick with octagonal bases and circular flues of carved brick. One storey and attics. Two large bay windows with stone mullions and transomes, embattled parapets and leaded lights; in each gable is a similar 2- light window lighting the attic. At the left hand end is a 5m length of screen wall of red brick, embattled, with moulded copings of red brick.

Listing NGR: TM1894257406