Lodge, Circa 430 Metres South West Of Bromsberrow Place

BROMSBERROW - SO 73 SE 6/4 Lodge, c430m south-west of Bromsberrow Place (formerly listed as part of Bromsberrow Place with 2.10.54 Stables and Lodge)

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Lodge; early to mid C19. Close, thin studded timber-framing, brick nogged: bricks painted white, framing grey. Later left wing painted brick: asbestos slate roof. Central octagon with 2 wings, single storey. Open verandah around front of octagon, square rendered piers at corners. Gabled open porch over entrance, cantilevered from verandah eaves; gable vertical boarding, scalloped bottom to boards, quatrefoil over, plain bargeboards. Door 2 glazed panels upper half, each semi-circular head; St. Andrew's cross on panel below. Two-light window in adjoining sections of octagon each side, semi-circular head to lights. Similar window in wing to right: long brace sill to corner post. Pyramid roof to octagon, taking in verandah, finial. Panelled brick chimney behind, diamond-set flues above. Right return cantilevered bay, swept lead roof, lights as other windows. Vertical boarding to gable, cut to semi-circle, bottom each board scalloped, plain bargeboards. Lodge said originally to have been thatched. Used as a school for girls during part of C19. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; F.F. Rigby, To Our Lady of Bromsberrow, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7531934020