Red Lodge

POWDERHAM SX 98 NE

3/342 Red Lodge

• II

House, formerly lodge to Powderham Castle at the entrance of what was a private drive. 1830 with late C20 rear addition. Colourwashed plastered red sandstone ; ornamental tiled roof, gabled at endswithcbpedgables and kneelers ; 2 rear lateral stone stacks with brick shafts. Tudor style. Plan: A single depth main block with a central entrance facing the stair with heated rooms to left and right ; rear centre wing with a 2 span roof. The lodge was formerly 2 dwellings and divided down the centre, each dwelling having one heated room, half the rear wing and sharing the porch on the front. Late C20 single-storey rear addition with a flat roof. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a 2-storey porch in the centre with a coped gable with kneelers and a chamfered Tudor arched stone doorway in the centre with a C20 inner door. Stone shield above the door carved with the Courtenay torteaux; 3-light mullioned oriel window on brackets to the first floor of the porch, 2-light mullioned windows to left and right. All the windows on the front elevation have pretty ornamental leaded panes. The returns have canted bay windows to the ground floor and 2-light mullioned windows to the first floor with square leaded panes ; similar mullioned windows to the rear wing. Interior: Modernized. The original stair is intact, the partition which divided it into 2 has been removed. A substantial lodge with good exterior detail on a prominent site at the junction of the main road to Kenton and the road to Powderham.

Listing NGR: SX9515285478