Wood House Lodge

SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON

1/189 Wood House Lodge

GV II

Lodge to Wood House (q.v.). 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson or Dan Gibson, renovated and enlarged circa 1980. Roughcast walls and stacks of stone rubble or brick; granite ashlar detail; slate roof. Plan: originally a 2- or 3-room plan cottage facing onto the drive to north. T- shaped plan with 2-room main block and right end gable end stack. Gabled bay projects forward just left of centre. This may originally have been a separate room and it has a projecting lateral stack on the left side. Entrance porch in angle of front bay (right side) and main block. Circa 1980 the rooms were all knocked into one and new service rooms built onto the rear. Single storey. Exterior: the gabled front end of the bay has a canted bay window with 2-lights each side; granite mullioned with roll-moulded elliptical head lights and sunken spandrels. It contains replacement rectangular panes of leaded glass. To right of the bay a plain granite mullioned 2-light window with simple slate dripcourse above (a 3-light version in the right end wail). Panelled oak door to porch. Roofs are gable-ended. Interior: is largely the result of the circa 1980 renovation. This lodge is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to go with the rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). Mawson himself considered the whole scheme as one of his major achievements. Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.

Listing NGR: SX6531095699