Knightshayes Lodge And Gate Piers And Quadrant Walls

TIVERTON

SS91SE Knightshayes Lodge, gate piers and 848-1/7/12 quadrant walls

GV II

Lodge, gate piers and quadrant walls. Probably 1868, or soon after, by William Burges. Squared stone rubble with details probably in dressed Ham stone. Lodge has tiled roof with crested ridge tiles (some missing); large stone rubble chimney on cross-wing. Tudor style. EXTERIOR: lodge designed to resemble a late medieval house with single-storey hall range to right and 2-storey gable cross-wing to left. Hall has 4-light mullioned and transomed window to right, pointed arched doorway to left. Above them a string course and a row of 3 shields with coats-of-arms. Cross-wing has 5-light mullioned and transomed bay window in ground storey, with canted sides and pent roof. 3-light mullioned window in upper storey. Gable has flat coping with kneelers and moulded apex; small round window in centre. Left return (exposed to Bolham Lane) has a 6-light bay window in ground storey, with square sides and pent roof. At eaves level a string course, continued from front elevation. 2-light gabled dormer in upper storey, with stone coping and kneelers. Windows to both elevations have unmoulded stone surrounds and small-paned glazing with margin panes, the glazing bars of iron. Rear elevation of cross-wing similar to that at the front, but without the bay window. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain features of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate piers have rough-faced bases and ashlar tops, the latter designed as pedestals with moulded caps and bases, these finished with short flat-topped pyramids. On the front of each pedestal is a shield carrying a coat-of-arms. Quadrant walls of squared rubble with chamfered copings of dressed rubble flank the gate piers.

Listing NGR: SS9566214546