Oxenford Gate Lodge

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SU 94SW 3/275

WITLEY C.P. MILFORD ROAD Oxenford Gate Lodge

9/3/60

GV II*

Gate Lodge. 1843-4 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in C13 style. Roughcoursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Gabled gate lodge approached over a bridge with a room over the carriage archway.

Entrance:- Cross to apex of gable, obtusely pointed carriage archway flanked by buttresses below, shields in arch spandrels. One quatrefoil window and two, two-light and roundel windows over. Octagonal stair turret to left (south west) and central buttresses to right hand return front. Bellcote to left of roof. Single storey wing at right angles to left with pentice link to the main gateway. Two studded double doors with arched door to'left. Rib vaulted centre passage of three arched bays.

Rear:- chamfered order and hood moulding to arched through-way. Two shouldered lancets in deep chamfered reveals and under hood mouldings. Two linked lancets to pentice on right. Gable crucifix. Central shield boss to roof.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.409.

Listing NGR: SU9318343238