Bar Lodge And Forecourt Steps And Walls

Bar Lodge is a beach house dating from 1895, designed by George H Fellowes-Prynne for John Peverell Rogers. It's constructed of roughly-coursed killas stone with granite dressings, featuring a plinth, quoins, a chamfered eaves cornice, chimney weatherings, stepped gable coping, a double kneeler, doorway, and mullioned windows. The roof is dry Delabole slate with an L-plan, hipped on the right, and incorporates external lateral stacks and a tall stack above the single-storey section on the right. Original cast-iron gutters and square downpipes are also present.

The building presents an irregular square plan with a two-storey range to the left and a single-storey range with a roof terrace (an early example) to the right, alongside a pavilion to the first floor at the rear. A large rear porch and a canted first-floor porch leading to the roof terrace add to the design. The architecture is in the Arts and Crafts style, heavily influenced by Jacobethan detailing. The elevations are irregular.

The seaward front features transomed windows. A two-storey gable end on the left bears an inscription over a gable ventilator, displaying the initials JPR (John Peverell Rogers) and MA (Maria Adelaida, his wife, daughter of the Italian Consul at Queenstown County Cork) above a three-light window over a canted bay with ashlar mullions and a slate roof. A single-storey wing is slightly set back to the right, featuring a chamfered doorway with a leaded hood on a moulded granite corbel, glazed doors, two-light windows, and semicircular five-light windows clasping the corner, all topped with a moulded cornice, continued on the return and surmounted by a turned balustrade. The rear has an elliptically-arched doorway leading to a porch and a pair of glazed and panelled doors. Windows are fitted with horned sashes, glazing bars, and small-paned toplights to the front. The pavilion roof is supported by slender turned wooden columns with spandrel braces.

The interior features a geometric tiled floor to the entrance hall, parquet floors in some areas, six-panel and four-panel doors, a staircase with turned newels and balusters, a mahogany handrail, and an iron grate to each chamber.

The raised forecourt, bowed in front of the gable end and approached by granite steps, is edged by a heavy turned balustrade with a moulded handrail and ball finials over drum newels.