West Lodge And Associated Entrance Walling And Gate-Piers

SW 73 NE PERRANARWORTHAL PERRANARWORTHAL

3/352 West Lodge and associated entrance 30.5.67 walling and gate-piers

GV II

Lodge to country house and associated entrance walling and gate-piers. Circa 1834. Built for Benjamin Sampson manager of a local powder factory. Shale rubble with dressed or faced architectural detail and slate sills. Polygonal hipped roof scantle slate roof with projecting eaves, lean-to at rear and central axial stone stack over main roof with diagonally-set brick shaft. Plan of 2 rooms flanking baffle entry plus rear service rooms within integral lean- to. Gothic style. Symmetrical 2-window east front facing driveway. Central steep 4-centred arched wooden doorway with original ledged door. Porch on 4-wooden posts supporting scantle slated roof with weatherboarded gable. Steep 4-centred arched recessed window openings with original paired arched traceried lights over lozenge paned casements, all leaded. Splayed corners to left and right. South side wall facing road has window identical to front windows and slate coped walling screening lean-to on left with quatrefoil window opening. Interior not inspected. Entrance walling is rubble, quadrant-on-plan where linked to square-on-plan granite gate-piers with tall recessed side panels. Wooden gate with rails braced below lock rail and with dowelling above, and hung with self-closing bottom hinge. Hinged keeper for holding gate open. Complete and unextended early C19 lodge to Tullimaar qv, a good quality circa 1828 house.

Listing NGR: SW7807938784