Lodge At The Entrance To Sackville School

This is a lodge dating probably to 1866, built as part of Foxbush, which later became Sackville School, and designed by G. Somers Clarke. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with blue diapering, with tile-hung gables, bands of scalloped tiles, a peg-tile roof, and a brick stack. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival.

The lodge is situated at the main entrance to Sackville School, overlooking the drive. It has an L-shaped plan, with a porch filling the angle between two blocks, and a stack at the junction. It is a single-storey building with an attic. The gabled roof has a stack with tall shafts and corbelled brick cornices. The north-east front, overlooking London Road, is asymmetrical with two windows. The left side has a jettied gable with a pendant and a five-light attic window, along with a one-light and a two-light casement window; the two-light window has a chamfered stone mullion. The pyramidal porch roof is supported on timber posts with moulded capitals. There is a plank front door with strap hinges. The right return gable coves out, with painted decoration, and has a transomed four-light bay window on the ground floor. The attic storey of the rear elevation is jettied and has tile hanging, and features one three-light window on the first floor and one on the ground floor, the latter with a high transom. The interior has not been inspected.

The lodge is a well-detailed building which contributes Group Value to Sackville School and other listed buildings along London Road.