Queens Lodge

WICKHAM BRIDGE STREET SU 5711 (north side) 10/25 Queens Lodge, formerly listed as house & shop occupied by 6/3/67 Mrs A Miller) GV II

House. Late Cl7 house with front of refined brickwork, with late C18/early C19 alterations and extensions, and minor C20 changes. Walls of brickwork in Flemish bond with fine joints, moulded plinth, brick eared architraves with corner scrolls and triangular ornaments below the cills remaining as fragments, later brickwork in header bond filling the former openings, and still later brickwork surrounding the present openings, cambered basement arch (to filled opening), small rubbed flat arch to upper central window. The main feature of the facade is a full-height central Ionic Order in fine cut brickwork, with dentilled entablature, two pilasters with entasis and Ionic Caps on curved plan, and plain stepped bases: within this framework is a pediment (of the same Order but smaller) above a doorway. Half-hipped tile roof with catslide at rear. The original symmetrical south front elevation of two storeys had two windows on each side of the centrepiece, but only the outer architraves of the former pairs of windows remain, and later single windows have replaced them without symmetry. Sashes, the ground-floor on the west side is a wide late C20 splayed bay (replacing tba former shop front). The C19 doorway has a plain frame, wood pediment on brackets and 6-panelled door. Within, there are two Cl7 overmantels of plaster decoration and a small section of plaster ornamental ceiling (with fully moulded cornice). The small window above the doorway has a lead Sun fire insurance sign, no 105673. A design of some distinction, considerably mutilated but retaining the centrepiece.

Listing NGR: SU5735711512