Bradridge Lodge Including Garden Gate Immediately South East And 3 Gate Piers Immediately South West

DIPTFORD SX75NW Bradridge Lodge including 4/196 garden gate immediately south east and 3 gate-piers immediately south west

GV II

Lodge to Bradridge House qv, garden gate and gate-piers to drive entrance. Early C19. Limewashed slate rubble. Low pitched pyramidal scantle slate roof covered in bitumen; the very deep eaves on the front and sides are carried on timber posts to form a verandah. Rendered square stack at apex of roof. Plan: Square single storey 4-room double depth plan facing the entrance drive to Bradridge House. At the centre of that front a doorway giving direct entry into the living room on the left; a smaller room on the right of the front is probably a bedroom with a similar room behind both heated from back to back fireplaces. behind the left hand front room is the kitchen also sharing the stack with back to back fireplaces. On the front and sides there is a verandah. Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical front with 1 window on either side of a central doorway all with segmental stone arch heads; later C19 2-light casements and glazed and panelled door. Similar 2-light casements on either side elevations. The principal feature of the lodge is the verandah on the front and sides which is framed by the very deep eaves of the roof which is supported on rustic timber posts, 6 posts on the front, and not including the corner posts these are 5 posts at the sides. The verandah does not continue at the back of the lodge but now has a C20 outshut. Interior: original joinery is intact including panelled doors and simple wooden chimneypiece etc. Including C19 Wrought iron garden gate at the front of the lodge with 2 concentric rings with intersecting and scroll patters and circles in the spandrels; including cast-iron square gate-posts with moulded finial. Also including 3 gate-piers to the main drive entrance; slate rubble with cemented caps squat and square on plan; 2 piers flank the drive and the third to the left is for the foot gate; the gates are C20

Listing NGR: SX7329057522