Menlow Lodge, Including Front Garden Area Walls, Piers, Gates And Railings

Menlow Lodge is a school annex built in 1909-10 by H. G. Crothall for the Middlesex County Council, and later converted into flats. It is constructed of English bond red brick with stone dressings, and has a hipped plain tile roof with deep sproketed eaves. Brick lateral stacks are present, with moulded stone cornices and set-offs below.

The building is L-shaped and comprises caretaker's accommodation and manual training and cookery rooms. The main southwest front has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows, with a projecting three-window wing featuring 1, 2 and 3-light sashes. A flat roof half dormer projects through the eaves, and an integral outshut is located in the left angle, also with a flat roof dormer. A stone porch, set diagonally across the angle, has a segmental arch with a keystone. A stone arched canopy is above the doorway in the wing, and a stone segmental doorway is in the lower, two-storey, one-window bay, which is set back on the left. All sashes have glazing bars, and the first floor has gauged brick flat arches and keystones. Recessed stone quoins mark all corners. The left-hand return elevation has a 3-light sash on the first floor and a small bullseye window on the ground floor, both with quadrant keystones. The rear northeast elevation is symmetrical, with a 1:2:1 window arrangement; the centre has 2-light sashes and large cross mullion transom windows above the eaves, with semi-circular heads. A smaller, similar window is in the projection on the southeast side.

The property includes low red brick walls with moulded stone coping and piers at intervals, with railings between. Two large piers flank the house, featuring buttresses with consoles, billet-moulded caps, and lanterns above.