Southcote Lodge And Garden Walls To East And West

Southcote Lodge, dating from the mid-18th century and incorporating parts of an earlier building, is a rectangular main block that rises 3 and a half storeys on the south side and 2 and a half storeys with flanking 2-storey wings on the north. The entrance front features silver grey brick with red window dressings and a modern central dormer. It has glazing bar sash windows, with three on the first floor, and a 19th-century glazed porch across the ground floor between the wings. The red brick wings project two windows in depth, which are blind, and each has one hipped dormer and one window at the north end. The building is topped with an old tile roof.

Flanking the lodge are curved garden walls that form one side of a small oval court. The south side of the lodge originally had a five-window front but now features a five-window mid-19th-century full-height bay to the left. There is a half-glazed late 18th-century door leading to the garden, complete with a bracketed hood and stone steps. The interior retains several good contemporary features, including fireplaces, plasterwork, and a staircase. This house was once the residence of John Blagrave, a mathematician. To the west, there is an 8-foot brick wall with chamfered capping, approximately 50 yards long, which returns to the south along the road. This wall is partly from the 18th century, with one brick inscribed with graffiti reading "E B 1720."