Middleton Park Service Wing And Southern Pair Of Forecourt Lodges

SP52SW MIDDLETON STONEY

5/116 Middleton Park: service wing 26/11/51 and southern pair of forecourt lodges (Formerly listed as Middleton Park)

GV II*

Subsidiary parts 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 service range is concealed from the forecourt by a solid wall pierced only by 3 gateways with rusticated doorcases and fine turned wooden grilles; garden side has a re-used wall from the demolished C18 mansion with an Ionic colonade and niches plus shuttered sashes matching those on the main house (q. v.) ; sashes in colonade are late C20 insertions. 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: SP5252723242