Hamptworth Lodge

REDLYNCH HAMPTWORTH ROAD SU 21 NW (south side) 9/206 Hamptworth Lodge 9.2.73

GV II*

Country house. 1912 by Sir Guy Dawber for H.C. Moffat. Flemish bond brick and timber-framing with brick nogging in different patterns, tiled roof, groups of different ornamental brick stacks. Large rectangular plan on north-south axis, with main rooms to south end and services to north. Informal Elizabethan style. 2- storey, 9-window front on east side. 2-storey porch with Tudor- arched stone doorway to left of centre, stone ovolo-mullioned and transomed leaded windows to either side with 2-storey canted bay to right lighting back stairs and square bay to left. First floor to right is jettied, with wooden mullioned windows. Good lead rainwater heads with initials HCM. Gabled roof has finely-carved bargeboards with vine and floral decoration, groups of decorated octagonal stacks. Left return has wooden and stone mullioned and transomed windows, recessed central bays with projecting gable of hall to left; full-height mullioned and transomed window to square bay. Similar gabled roof. Rear is long garden front with tall hall windows to right and large lateral stack with diaperwork and pair of diagonally-set chimneys, to left is pair of 2-storey canted bays to dining room and simpler windows to services to left. Right return is service entrance in plain Flemish bond brick, 2-light leaded casements and plain paired square stacks. Interior: very fine details in wood throughout; full-height oak panelling to ground floor, especially fine in gallery in Ionic pilasters and carved doorcases, and in open hall. Hall has 5-bay arch-braced collar roof with oak panelling and naturalistic rose carved frieze, Tudor-arched stone fireplace with strapwork overmantel and herringbone brick back, fine bronze light fittings, organ gallery with carvings executed by H.C. Moffat. Open- well stairs with closed string, squat turned balusters. First floor bedrooms with panelling in pear, cedar, walnut and oak, all with segmental-vaulted ceilings, some plaster decoration, stone Tudor-arched fireplaces. Built to replace an early C17 house demolished in 1910, parts of which are incorporated in the service end of present house. The builders were Mussellwhite and Son of Basingstoke. (Building News, June 13th, 1913, VHC, Wiltshire Vol. XI, 1980).

Listing NGR: SU2274019537