The Warneford Hospital: The Lodge And Front Garden Area Wall And Gate Piers

SP 50 NW 612/24/10044

OXFORD WARNEFORD LANE, Headington The Warneford Hospital: The Lodge and front garden area wall and gate-piers

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House. Dated 1910; by N.W. Harrison. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Clay plain tile hipped roof with stone-coped gables to front. Ashlar axial stacks with moulded caps. PLAN: L-shaped on plan with central entrance to front range. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay north west front. The centre of the front is advanced and has two gables with moulded stone coping and kneelers, ashlar around the 4-light windows with dripmoulds above, the ground floor with continuous string over the return lights, but broken by the Roman Doric stone portico at the centre, within which there is a round arch with a keystone; continuous weathered cill to the first floor windows. Between the gables a dormer with a moulded cornice to its flat roof and a pair of symmetrically place stacks above that. At the rear, a 2-storey canted bay window on the wing on right and doorway at centre with date 1910 to side. In front of house a coursed stone rubble dwarf garden area wall with dressed stone coping, ramped up at ends and to ashlar foot gate-piers at centre with moulded caps. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP5387506268