White Lodge

Detached villa, built around 1820. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar and render, with a slate roof and moulded stacks to the gable ends. It is a double-depth plan. The exterior presents a symmetrical three-window front to the left, with a two-window range projecting forward to the right. It has a coped parapet, cornice, and a ground floor platband. The ground floor windows are eight-over-eight pane sashes. The original rendered left-hand block has a central, mid-19th century, lower two-storey porch supported by Tuscan columns, with a returned parapet and cornice, and a sill band to a first-floor six-over-six pane tripartite window. Double three-panel doors are set within the original wall. First-floor windows are also six-over-six pane sashes. A canopy projects between the porch and the right-hand block, springing from the first-floor sill. The projecting right-hand block has cast iron trellised balconettes to two six-over-nine pane first-floor windows. A painted timber lintel beneath the platband suggests a possible former coach-house or arch over a carriageway. An original Sun Fire Insurance plaque is located between the windows. The rear garden front features two full-height segmental bays with good cast iron balconies to the first and ground floors. The interior, recorded by the Bath Preservation Trust in 1988, features a cantilevered stone staircase with an unusual mahogany twisted newel post and handrail, moulded door architraves with anthemion corners, fine chimneypieces (some of coloured marble, others with anthemion or reeded decoration), and high-quality Greek Revival plasterwork. This is a fine late Georgian villa dating from the initial development of Bathwick Hill. John Pinch the Elder, who was involved in the development of the Bathwick Estate, likely influenced the design.