Chestnut Lodge And Squires Mount

Chestnut Lodge and Squires Mount are a terrace of originally four houses, now two residences, dating to circa 1714, with alterations made later, and a circa 1900 Neo-Georgian addition by Horace Field to Chestnut Lodge. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and horizontal floor bands, featuring plain pilaster strips between the easternmost houses. The roof is tiled and slated, with dormers.

The building is three storeys high, with attics and basements, and has an eleven-window range (originally 2:3:4:2) to the main (south) front. Squires Mount, the second house from the east end, retains its original doorway, featuring a wooden architraved doorcase with vermiculated block dressings, a keystone, a pulvinated frieze, and a dentil cornice. The remaining entrances have later 19th-century Neo-Georgian details. A two-storey extension in brick at the west end of the range accommodates the entrance to Chestnut Lodge. Windows are slightly recessed sashes with exposed boxing, set within gauged red brick flat arches. The eastern end of Squires Mount incorporates a later circa 1900 ground-floor loggia; it is characterised by pilasters flanking French windows, and a balustraded parapet. The return side has canted bay windows flanking a French door at ground floor, and a similar window to the first floor on the left. Parapets are present.

The interior was noted to retain some panelling, though it has not been inspected. Original lead rainwater heads and pipes are visible on the south front.

Historically, the building was the home of Edwin Field, a law reformer, in the late 19th century, and it was formerly Mrs Holt's School for Young Ladies.