Gloucester Lodge

Gloucester Lodge is an L-shaped house built in 1830, designed by James Burton, likely with input from Decimus Burton, as part of the original layout of St Leonards. It is in the Tudor/Gothic style and is stuccoed, standing three storeys tall with three windows.

The main facade faces southeast across the original Subscription Gardens, now known as St Leonards Gardens. The house is set on a terrace made of sandstone rusticated ashlar, which extends in front of it and includes a cellar. The front is flanked by stepped buttresses that rise nearly the full height of the elevation. It features a cornice and a castellated parapet, with a first-floor oriel window consisting of six lights, complete with mullions and a transom. On the second floor, there are three two-light casement windows, each with dripmoulds above. The ground floor has a verandah made of wrought iron and two-light casements. A circular tower rises from the flat roof at the northwest corner, topped with a flagpole and a weathervane. The entrance is located on the north side, featuring an enclosed porch with a moulded four-centred arch doorway and a dripmould. The chimneys are adorned with a group of twisted shafts.

Originally named the Castellated Villa, it was renamed Gloucester Lodge in honor of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, who resided there in 1831.