Baytree Lodge And Entrance Wall And Piers At Roadside

SW 73 NE PERRANARWORTHAL PERRANWELL STATION

3/361 Baytree Lodge and entrance wall and piers at roadside

GV II

Lodge to country house, known as Melingey (original house not extant) and including gate-piers, terminal piers and entrance walling. Circa late C19. Faced coursed local freestone with some dressed stone. Slate roofs with gable ends embellished with pierced roundels to wooden bargeboards and open panels over collar, all carried on corbels. Tall ashlar chimneys with cornices, over gable end, left, and over side wall right. L-shaped 3-room plan with square-on-plan entrance porch in the angle. Vernacular Victorian gothic style. Extended C20 to rear. Single storey. Plinth. North front has side wall of east wing, left, porch in angle and gable end of north wing, right. East wing has central 3-light transommed mullioned window with half-hipped dormer with segmental pierced bargeboard. Porch rises as tower above other eaves tire and has steep pyramidal roof over machicolated and moulded eaves cornice, trefoil head light to front and pointed doorway in left- hand (east) wall. Top-glazed panelled door and single pane overlight to tympanum. North gable end has 5-light transomed canted bay window with lower mullions of turned columns with carved capitals. Further but less elaborate windows to other fronts. All windows with original leaded glazing. Interior not inspected. Entrance wall has square coursed freestone entrance gateway and terminal piers. Truncated finials over gate-piers and moulded capitals with ball finials over terminal piers. Moulded copings to low wall between.

Listing NGR: SW7804939742