Two Lodges In Euston Square Gardens

Two detached lodges located in Euston Square Gardens were built around 1870 by JB Stansby, an engineer for the London & North Western Railway company. Constructed from Portland stone with leaded roofs, the lodges have a rectangular plan and symmetrical facades on each side. They are single-storey buildings featuring plain ashlar podiums and blind central arches with mask keystones, linked by impost bands. The facades facing Euston Grove include doorways with double, panelled wooden doors and overlights. Below the impost bands, the arches are flanked by panels, and rusticated quoins at the impost level are present at all corners, displaying the names of stations served by the company. The lodges are topped with an entablature featuring a modillion cornice. The north and south facades are adorned with pediments that contain sculptured allegorical figures in relief, representing England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, created by Joseph Pitts. The interiors have not been inspected. Historically, these lodges, along with the statue of Robert Stephenson that once stood between them, are the only remaining elements of the formal 1870 layout of Euston Station, which included the Doric Arch that was destroyed in 1962.