Church Lodge

HIGHNAM HIGHNAM VILLAGE SO 7819-7919 9/50 Church Lodge GV II House. 1851 by H. Woodyer for T. Gambier-Parry. Squared, uncoursed lias, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. Irregular 'T' plan, 1 1/2 storeys, single-storey rear wing. Main front: gable to left, 4-light mullioned window, trefoil heads to lights, row of quatrefoils over: above 2-light window, trefoil heads, ashlar over to hoodmould. Set-back on right with single lancet. Plinth to porch on wing to right, boarded door up 2 stone steps, under arch. On right circular turret, square-headed single-light window; slightly above and to right large, plain projecting stone, similar window above, conical roof with small dormer. Single lancet on right. Large, triangular dormer over porch, 3-light wooden tracery, scalloped barge boards. Lateral chimney to rear behind turret. Left return, lancet on right; irregular chimney-breast, offsets in 2 directions, hipped stone top, rising against right half of central gable: paired, diamond-set flues above. To left, chimney-breast corbelled out at first floor, hipped stone top, diamond-set flues rising against left side of gable, flat-headed lancet in centre. To left 4-light window as front. Built for sacristan for church: forms group with church, school and rectory (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7967019675