Middleton Park Garage Wing And Northern Pair Of Forecourt Lodges

SP52SW MIDDLETON STONEY

5/113 Middleton Park: garage wing 26/11/51 and northern pair of forecourt lodges (Formerly listed as Middleton Park)

GV II*

Subsidiary part of country house, now subdivided into dwellings. 1938 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lutyens for the 9th Earl of Jersey. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof with rubble stacks. Single-storey garage range is hidden from the forecourt by a solid wall pierced only by 2 gateways with rusticated doorcases; return wall to left now has tall shuttered sashes similar to those on the main house (q.v.). Linked pyramid-roofed lodges, of 2 storeys plus attics, have 2-window arrangements of 2-light shuttered casements, and have hipped roof dormers plus an apex stack. The lodge flanking the forecourt entrance has a pedimented rusticated doorway and is linked, by a short section of wall containing a further doorway, to one of the entrance piers bearing a stone eagle by Sir W. Reid Dick. Interiors not inspected. (A.S.G. Butler, The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, Vol.I, 1951; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.703-4; Country Life, July 5th and 12th 1946, pp.28-31 and 74-77).

Listing NGR: SP5254923281