Upper Lodge With Gates And Gatepiers

SO 81 SE UPTON ST LEONARDS PAINSWICK ROAD (west side), Cranham Corner

6/200 Upper Lodge with gates and gatepiers

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Detached lodge house, linked by wall to gates and gate piers. Late C19. Probably by Waller and Son for Thomas Dyer Edwardes. Rock- faced coursed limestone; ashlar dressings; timber framing with roughcast infill; rock-faced chimneys with moulded ashlar caps; clay plain tile roof. Single storey with attic and cellar; picturesque composition. South east (road) side: off-centre gabled projection combines porch and timber framed bay window with high level leaded casements; leaded casement in framed gable; segmental- headed casement to left and right of bay; tall ridge-mounted chimney to left of gable. North east end: timber framing to attic of gable end; single casement fenestration. North west side: timber framing to attic; central projecting gable with leaded attic casement in timber framing; eaves-mounted chimney to left, gabled roof dormer to right; segmental headed casements to ground floor and cellar. South west end: timber framing to attic of gable end; single casement fenestration. Attached dry stone wall connects with plain ashlar gate piers having ball finials; iron spear-topped gates with single intermediate horizontal scroll band. Built into side of hill with precipitous drop through beech woods. Important landscape value. Forms one entrance to St. Peter's Grange, Prinknash Park (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO8826413114