Lawn Lodge

Lawn Lodge is a lodge for Fonthill Abbey, now a detached house, built around 1860 by William Burn for the Marquess of Westminster. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and ashlar stacks, featuring a T-plan layout. It is two stories high with one window in each gabled wing. The entrance has a shouldered planked door with a moulded architrave, located in a porch with a hipped roof at the angle between the two wings. There is an 8-pane sash window beside the porch, while the right gabled wing has a 12-pane sash window in a roll-moulded architrave on both the ground and first floors. The left wing features an 8-pane sash window, a canted bay with sashes on the ground floor of the gable end facing the drive, and a 12-pane sash window with a Westminster crest above it. The left return has a slightly projecting stack and an 8-pane sash window, while the gabled wing contains 12-pane sashes. The roofs are gabled with coped verges and ball finials. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension from the 1970s that matches the original style and materials, reusing roll-moulded architraves and sashes. Inside, there is a winding stone staircase with cast-iron balusters and handrail, 4-panelled doors in beaded architraves, and a large stone semi-circular archway connecting the original building and the extension. The fireplace in the extension uses a window architrave as its surround. Lawn Lodge is one of two lodges designed by Burn for the driveways to Fonthill Abbey, the other having been demolished in 1955.