Eagle Lodge

Eagle Lodge is a villa, built around 1825, and later altered, including a 1970s extension to the rear. It is constructed of stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof. The building has a roughly L-shaped layout, centred around a hallway. It is two storeys high with a basement and attic.

The main entrance features a six-panel door with a fanlight, incorporating radial glazing bars, and is sheltered by a semicircular portico with Doric columns. The portico’s frieze is decorated with triglyphs and metopes, topped with a cornice and blocking course. The ground floor windows are tripartite sashes with pilaster strips between them and a moulded cornice. The windows sit within plain reveals, with a cambered recess above featuring a moulded fan motif. A continuous sill band runs along the first floor. The first floor has six-panel sashes in wider, shallow, cambered recesses. The roofline features brackets and attic dormers with casement windows, each with a round arch.

The right side of the building has a pattern of one, two, and one windows on the first floor. A full-height bow window is a prominent feature on the return. The original windows are six-panel sashes, though some ground-floor windows now have tripartite two/two sashes flanked by a one/one sash with fluted pilaster strips and tooled reveals. The interior was not inspected. Eagle Lodge demonstrates an interesting villa design, distinguished by the fans incorporated into the portico’s triangular spaces, the bowed return bay, and the front porch, which give it a more three-dimensional quality compared to other contemporary villas.