Middleton Park Service Wing And Southern Pair Of Forecourt Lodges

The Middleton Park service wing and the southern pair of forecourt lodges are subsidiary parts of a country house, now divided into dwellings. They were designed in 1938 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lutyens for the 9th Earl of Jersey. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and feature a plain-tile roof with rubble stacks.

The single-storey service range is hidden from the forecourt by a solid wall that has three gateways with rusticated doorcases and finely turned wooden grilles. On the garden side, there is a re-used wall from the demolished 18th-century mansion, which includes an Ionic colonnade and niches, along with shuttered sashes that match those on the main house; the sashes in the colonnade are late 20th-century insertions.

The linked lodges, which have pyramid roofs, are two storeys tall with attics and feature a two-window arrangement of two-light shuttered casements. They also have hipped roof dormers and an apex stack. The lodge next to the forecourt entrance has a pedimented rusticated doorway and is connected by a short section of wall containing another doorway to one of the entrance piers, which bears a stone eagle by Sir W. Reid Dick. The interiors have not been inspected.