The Lodge And The Lilacs, Including Front Garden Wall And Gate Piers

This is a large house, built in the early to mid-19th century and now divided into two separate dwellings. The walls are solid and rendered, with the right gable clad in slate. The roof is hipped and slate-covered, featuring a raised ridge tile. Rendered chimneys are present. The main north-east facing front has three windows, and the right side wall, which faces the street, also has three windows, incorporating the doorways. A semicircular, round-arched niche is centrally located on the ground floor. The windows on the ground floor are wooden French windows; each leaf contains three panes with small margin panes, and a transom light of one pane with a margin pane. An exception is the left-hand transom light of the right-hand sash windows, which has a margin pane pattern of 3 over 6 panes. A deep flat eaves cornice is present, adorned with paired brackets and soffit panels. The entrance to number 20 and the window above it are deeply recessed under a segmental arch on the right side wall. The entrance door is six-panelled, with the two upper panels now glazed, and has panelled reveals and a soffit two panels deep. An upper storey window on the right side wall is a two-light casement with two panes per light. A late 20th-century wrought-iron porch and wooden balcony are positioned in front of this window. Windows at number 22 have late 20th-century small-paned wooden frames, but the original cornice continues to run along the front of the building. A stone rubble wall with stone slab coping runs along the entire street frontage, with a pair of square gate piers at each end topped with square stone slab caps having rendered pyramidal tops. The piers at The Lodge project slightly from the wall face, unlike those serving The Lilacs. The wall turns back to meet the house at the right-hand end, with the coping sweeping upwards at the rear.