Terrace Lodge

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD PARK ST 73 SE (west side) 6/164 Terrace Lodge GV II Lodge to Stourhead House (q.v.). 1785 for Richard Colt Hoare. Dressed limestone, hipped Welsh slate roof, gable end pairs of diagonally-set rendered stacks. Single-storey, 2-window. Central projecting stone porch with moulded Tudor-arched opening and hoodmould, chamfered lights to sides, inner half-glazed Tudor- arched door, 3-light mullioned casement with cusped arched lights and hoodmould either side. Pierced triangles decorate parapet, forming triangle over the porch, with Hoare arms. Right return has two 3-light mullioned casements with cusped arched lights and hoodmoulds. Left return has three single cusped headed casements. Rear courtyard with Tudor-arched archway in wall bounding south side, single-storey extension. Interior not accessible at time of survey (October 1986), but said to contain reset late C18 wooden fireplace surround with scrolled frieze. One of a group of several picturesque lodges built by Colt Hoare at Stourhead, probably by William Reveley whose plans for Clock Tower Lodge are dated 1797. (Stourhead Annals)

Listing NGR: ST7708834653