Town Lodge

ST GERMANS FORE STREET, (north side), SX 35 NE St Germans 7/99 (17/173) Town Lodge (formerly listed as the 23.1.68 Gatehouse, Port Eliot

GV II*

Lodge to Port Eliot. Circa 1840 with few later alterations. Greenstone ashlar with limestone dressings, plinth, quoins and gateway. Slate roof behind embattled parapet. Plan: pair of one-room plan lodges, linked by a gateway in limestone. Tudor Gothic style. Exterior: Each lodge is of 2 storeys, symmetrical. Ground floor has 3-light window with cusped lights and square hood mould, band course, first floor embattled oriel with 4 cusped lights and cornice. Central 4-centred arched moulded gateway with quartrefoils in recessed spandrels, parapet with blind quartrefoil panels; panel with arms, supporters and coronet of the Earls of St Germans. Stacks to outer sides of lodges. Inner side to right has canted bay at ground floor, with 4 cusped lights and panelled parapet, 4-panelled Gothic door to right with hood mould. First floor string course and two 2-light windows with cusped lights and hood mould; embattled parapet. Inner side to left as to right, with small single storey addition to right with two 2-light casements with 2-centred arched heads and door with overlight; cornice with one gargoyle. Small single storey addition to end with 2-light casement with stone mullion and hood mould, embattled parapet. Outer side blind. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX3586057753