South West Lodge And Walls And Railings At Plymouth Devonport And Stonehouse Cemetery

The South West Lodge, along with the surrounding walls and railings, forms the entrance to Plymouth Devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery. Built in the mid-19th century, the lodge is constructed from Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings, and has dry slate roofs with coped gable ends. It has irregularly disposed rubble and dressed stone stacks, one diagonally-set and one with a round shaft. The design is in the Gothic Revival style and presents an irregular plan intended to resemble two attached lodges.

The lodge is single-storey with an attic to part, featuring irregular buttressed gabled elevations and transomed mullioned windows with pointed tops and sunk spandrels. The front facing the carriageway has gables on both sides, each with a canted bay window. A gabled dormer sits over a projecting outshut to the right of the left-hand gable, and a lateral stack is located in the angle between the gables. The left-hand return front has a gable over a two-light window and a porch to the right, featuring a two-centred arched doorway and original planked doors. The interior remains largely unaltered, as far as can be determined from the exterior.

Attached to the lodge’s forecourt are low rubble walls with two squat gate piers. These walls connect to the cemetery entrance gateway, which has dressed limestone piers surmounted by cruciform gabled caps with curved plinths. Wrought and cast-iron railings with turned bases and finials run between these piers.