The Lodge, 18 Henleaze Road

Lodge. Early C19, with a mid-to late C19 two-storey extension to the rear. The late-C20 single-storey addition to the south-west corner is not included.

STYLE: designed in a Domestic Revival style.

MATERIALS: built of squared and coursed limestone rubble. The roof is covered in slate tiles; those to the principal (east) elevation and the porch are scalloped. The axial Tudor-style chimney stack has three tall, stone chimney pots; that to the north retains evidence of its original carved decoration of interlocking ovals.

PLAN: a roughly T-shaped plan comprising the principal range with a projecting porch to the east, and a mid-to late C19 extension to the rear (west).

EXTERIOR: of one and a half storeys. The principal range has offsets to the lower courses of the stonework and timber casement windows with diamond-leaded lights (the leadwork to the ground-floor windows is a later modification) set within round-arched heads with chamfered spandrels. The gables to the principal range all feature applied timber framing and decorative bargeboards with pyramidal finials and multi-faceted pendants, and are supported on pairs of shaped timber brackets to the corners.

The entrance (east) elevation has an asymmetrical arrangement of two bays. To the left is an eight-light, mullion-and-transom bay window, with a three-light gabled dormer window above. To the right is a projecting, gabled porch. The porch is built on a dwarf wall with offsets, with four round-arched openings to either side; the leaded lights were added in the mid-C20. The open doorway of the porch has a Tudor-arched head with foliate ironwork to the spandrels and leads to the principal entrance door which has a decorative iron door knocker and letter box. The porch has a geometric tiled floor. The bargeboards to the gabled porch and gabled dormer feature a curving design interspersed with berries.

The gabled north and south elevations of the principal range have a three-light window to the ground floor and a three-light oriel window to the first floor supported on four timber corbels. Both have decorative bargeboards to the gables with a cusped S-shape design and a leaf motif to the ends.

The set-back rear extension is built of larger blocks of coursed limestone. The north elevation has a ground-floor two-light window within a stone, eared and shouldered architrave. The rear (west) gabled elevation has plain bargeboards and beneath is a three-light window with an ashlar surround. The ground floor has been altered with the former doorway now a two-light window; the door appears to have been reused in the single-storey addition (excluded from the listing) to the right.

INTERIOR: it is understood that the hall has a quarry-tiled floor and a staircase with a steeply chamfered, narrow newel post. The internal joinery includes dado-height panelling, window seats, plank and batten doors, and ceiling beams.