East Lodge

SW 73 NE PERRANARWORTHAL PERRANARWORTHAL

3/353 East Lodge 30.5.67

GV II

Lodge to country house and gate-piers, now private house. 1834. Built for Benjamin Sampson manager of a local powder factory. Shale rubble walls with faced or dressed architectural detail and slate sills. Polygonal hipped scantle slate roof with projecting eaves and central 2-stage axial brick chimney. Cast iron ogee gutters. Plan of 2 rooms flanking central baffle entry. Service rooms behind, extended slightly in the C20; and further room at left-hand side (north) of front in same style but possibly later, and also with room behind. Gothic style detail. Single storey. Overall 3-window west front originally facing driveway with 1-window bay (possibly later) set back slightly on left and symmetrical 2-window front with central doorway. Wooden steep 4-centred doorway with original ledged doorway with blind arched panels. Original open porch (now glazed) with scantle slated pedimented gabled roof carried on 4 square posts, those to front with small capitals. Tympanum has 3-bay blind cantelevered arcade of trefoil-headed arches with central arch taller. Windows are set in steep 4-centred arched recesses with original paired traceried lights over lozenge paned casements, all leaded. Splayed corners to left and right. Further similar window to right-hand side wall and quatrefoil window opening to coped wall screening lean-to. Simple interior. Porch floor has date, 1834 in cobbles. Square-on-plan dressed granite gate-piers to west of south side have caps with inverted step cornices and pyramidal tops rising to flat square bases for statures, urns or torches. Formerly the lodge to Tullimaar qv, a good quality circa 1828 house. An early C19 lodge with most of its original features. Almost nearly identical to West Lodge qv, but larger.

Listing NGR: SW7867038996