South Lodge

ST GILES SS 51 NW IN THE WOOD 7/195 South Lodge - II

Former lodge to Stevenstone House. Circa 1870, built by the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. Local stone rubble with rock-faced sandstone ashlar quoins and ashlar dressings; stone rubble stacks with diagonally set divided brick chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan: T-plan house. The main block faces west onto the former drive. It has a 2- room plan, one each side of the central entrance hall. These rooms have projecting gable-end stacks. A slightly lower 1-room plan kitchen block projects at right angles to rear of centre and it has a gable-end stack. 2 storeys. Exterior: Symmetrical 2-window front in an eccentric Tudor style. Full height central entrance bay breaks forward a little with a Tudor arch doorway containing a C20 door and overlight behind an early C20 porch. Above is a small oculus window and the top jetties out on a series of corbels. Its shouldered gable contains an engaged stone pendant. The windows each side have chamfered reveals and contain C20 casements without glazing bars and the first floor windows are half dormers with shouldered gables and break forward very slightly to give an oriel window effect. Main roof is gable-ended with ashlar coping. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5281418325