Castle Malwood Lodge

This medium-sized country house, now converted into flats, was built in 1884 by E Christian for Sir W Harcourt, a Liberal Cabinet Minister. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings, timber-frame and plaster infill on the first floor, and has plain tile roofs and brick stacks. The architectural style is Domestic Revival, potentially described as "Stockbroker Tudor”, with a U-shaped plan extending over two and a half stories, two rooms deep, and featuring a four-window range set against a tall roof. An entrance porch is located on one end of the building, with another on the opposite end. A courtyard lies within the building's interior. The right-hand end of the entrance range has a projecting two-story gabled porch, supported by timber posts with spandrels to a first-floor balcony featuring a decorative timber balustrade. Below the porch is a square doorway, topped by a rectangular bow with a hipped fishscale tile roof. The gable has bargeboards. To the right of the porch are stone mullioned and transomed windows on either side of an external chimney which incorporates a moulded armorial panel above the eaves, tapering into a moulded stack. A large three-light window with a head is set within a gabled dormer. To the left of the porch is a three-light casement and a high-set two-light, hip-roofed dormer. A steep-pitched hipped roof is topped by a similar stack to the one behind the porch. The next range mirrors the left-hand part of the first range and then includes two two-and-a-half-story gabled projections; one has a high-set first-floor four-light casement, the other incorporates a similar first-floor balcony on corbelled brackets. The garden front features irregular gables of differing projections and, on the ground floor, canted or rectangular bays which run across the front, topped with balconies having similar balustrades.