Clifton Wood Lodge

Clifton Wood Lodge is a terrace of six houses built in the early 18th century and extended in the early and mid-19th century. The houses are constructed of stuccoed stone with pantile roofs behind parapets, moulded coping and brick axial stacks with clay pots.

The south front comprises three bays to the right (numbers 1, 2 and 3), with 12-pane sash windows. Each of these houses features a large first-floor sash within a moulded architrave, topped with a segmental pediment and a balcony supported by brackets, with a cast-iron balustrade featuring an anthemion motif (the balustrade is missing from number 1). Smaller sashes are on the second floor, also within moulded architraves. Each house has a doorway with a moulded architrave, rectangular overlight and panelled door. Number 4 projects slightly with a one-bay front, and number 5 continues the style. Number 6 and part of number 5 project further, with an alternate bay arrangement, 12-pane sashes to the ground and first floors, and smaller casements above. A doorway to the left of centre has a 20th-century panelled door, rectangular overlight, and flanking 12-pane sashes, with the left one being blind. The west return elevation of number 6 features a large, three-storey canted bay with 12-pane sashes, and a lower string course to the cills of the smaller second-floor casements. A projection on the left has 20th-century casements, a doorway, and windows with intersecting and margin glazing bars. The rear (north) elevation has various sash windows with glazing bars.

The interior of number 6 retains many original features from the early 18th century, including a stone-flagged entrance hall, a fireplace with a moulded chimneypiece and grate, and a fine open-well staircase with two turned balusters per tread, a heavy moulded veneered handrail ramped at the corners, with column newels and a moulded string to the second-floor flight. The stairs have a panelled dado, and the principal rooms have panelled dado. The drawing room features a moulded plastered ceiling cornice, a late 18th-century neo-Classical chimneypiece and a 19th-century Gothic iron grate. The saloon above has a modillion ceiling cornice, panelled window shutters, a panelled dado and a mid-19th-century marble chimneypiece with English ‘Delft’ tiles. The second-floor landing has a modillion ceiling cornice. One second-floor room has a moulded ceiling cornice, a fireplace with an eared architrave chimneypiece and grate, fielded panel doors, attic stairs with stick balusters and moulded handrail ramped up to column newels, and a tenoned-purlin roof structure. The interiors of numbers 1 to 5 were not inspected. The property is a handsome mid-19th-century terrace attached to an early 18th-century house, which retains many original interior features.