Lodge To Lupton House At Sx 897 542 Including Gate Piers

BRIXHAM

SX85SE A379, Lupton Park 1946-1/12/273 (North East side) Lodge to Lupton House at SX 897 542 including gate piers

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Lodge to Lupton House including gate piers. c1840. Probably by George Wightwick as part of his improvements at Lupton House (Gramercy Hall School, Lupton House (qv)). For Sir JB Yarde-Boller. Limestone ashlar; slate roofs gabled at ends; stacks with octagonal stone shafts and cornices. Stone gate piers. Tudor style. Plan: T-plan lodge with a central front projecting wing facing the road, heated from a left lateral stack and a main block with end stacks; porch on right return of front wing; single-storey block adjoins front wing on left return. Gateway immediately to the right. Exterior: 2 storeys. Coped gables with kneelers; shallow projecting stacks with set-offs and paired shafts. Timber casement windows with glazing bars. Asymmetrical 1:1-window front. The wing has a 4-light ground-floor canted bay, the windows with moulded mullions; bay has parapet decorated with blind half-roundels. 2-light first-floor mullioned windows with dripmould. Gable has tall octagonal finial. Single-storey block has coped gable and lancet window. Projecting gabled porch on right return of wing with chamfered 3-centred outer doorway and plank and stud inner door. Octagonal gate piers have moulded cornices and shallow pyramidal caps. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. Group value with coeval kennel block (Kingswear CP) on opposite side of the A379.

Listing NGR: SX8968854223