Osborne Lodge

Osborne Lodge is a villa, dating from approximately 1833 to 1850, and later adapted for use as flats. The building has undergone alterations, including a raising of the roof in the late 20th century (around 1980), and extensions to the right and at the rear. It is constructed of stucco over brick, with a renewed mock slate roof.

The villa is arranged over two storeys, with a basement and attic space, and has five first-floor windows arranged in a 3:1:3 pattern, with two full-height bowed projections at the ends. The stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor, a moulded sill band on the first floor, and tooled, eared architraves to the central window and the centre of the bowed first-floor windows; all first-floor windows have aprons. The windows are 6/6 sash windows throughout, with the windows in the bowed projections being curved in section. The basement windows are 8/8 sashes. A flight of steps leads to the central entrance, which features double panelled doors with an overlight containing decorative glazing bars, flanked by three-quarter engaged fluted Doric columns set within a recessed surround. A crowning cornice sits on acanthus brackets, topped by a low parapet. The right return features three full-height bowed projections. The rear of the building has a two-storey bow to the centre, incorporating Doric pilasters to create a colonnade effect, and two outer rectangular bays. Some of the bows retain 6/6 sash windows, curved in section.

The interior of the building was not inspected for listing purposes.

The Park, where Osborne Lodge is situated, was laid out by Thomas Billings by 1833 as an oval, tree-lined drive with a central park which briefly became a zoological garden in the mid-19th century. Samuel Daukes purchased the development in 1839 and continued the building program. The design of the development was influenced by the schemes for Regent’s Park in London (1809-11). The villa is distinguished by its rhythmic arrangement of bowed bays.