Master'S Lodge, The Charterhouse And Attached Railings

Master’s Lodge is a three-storey terraced house with a basement, built in 1716. It incorporates parts of a 15th-century gatehouse to the Charterhouse. The house is constructed of plum brick with red brick dressings, with the gatehouse featuring flint chequerwork faced with brick and ragstone. It has a tiled roof.

The main facade has a three-window range to the left and a three-window range over a gateway. Steps lead to a round-arched entrance, framed by fluted Corinthian pilasters, a frieze with a central moulding, a segmental pediment, and a fanlight with a carved keystone and spandrels. The original panelled door remains. All windows are flat-arched with sashes, some 9/9 and some 6/6, set within frames flush with the wall. Moulded brick bands define the floors, and there is a parapet with an end stack to the east. Cast-iron railings define the area.

The gatehouse, which slightly projects from the house, has separate carriage and footways beneath four-centred arches. The carriage arch features a moulded hoodmould with corbelled stops, while the footway dates from the early 19th century. A flat timber canopy, supported by carved lion brackets and a cornice, sits above the arch. The north elevation is stuccoed to the ground floor and includes a Tudor-arched doorway and a flat-arched window, both likely dating from the early 19th century. A polygonal oriel window is positioned above, probably dating from the late 19th century. Approximately 25 metres of wall, originally part of the Charterhouse precinct wall, stands to the east; its lower portion is flint chequerwork and the upper portion is random rubble with a stone cornice as coping.

The interior features a vestibule panelled to picture-rail height with a moulded wood cornice. Most rooms have full-height panelling and cornices, except for a second-floor closet and back rooms. A staircase with a square newel descends to the basement; it has fluted details, barleysugar balusters, a carved open string, a ramped rail, and a panelled dado. The ground-floor front room has a late 18th or early 19th-century cast-iron grate within an enriched fireplace, and an elliptical arch at the rear creates a shallow annexe. A 19th-century cast-iron fireplace is found in the first-floor room above the gateway. The second-floor front room has been divided and contains a bolection-moulded fireplace.