Brereton Lodge

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GOATHLAND GOATHLAND VILLAGE Brereton Lodge

II Shooting lodge, now house. c.1902. By W.H.Brierley for W.Brooke. Dressed sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, and stone slate roof. Four wings around an open square courtyard.

South front; two storeys, four bays, the left end one a projecting, full-height crossgable. Left-of-centre board door with two-light window to left; two four-light windows to right. Three-light windows above. Crossgable has jettied first floor on corbels and four-light windows on both floors. Centre right stack.

West front; two storey, two window central range between gable walls of flanking ranges; right gable wall has full-height projecting porch. Porch first floor jettied on corbels with 3-light windows on both floors: board door in south side beneath one-light window. Right gable wall has two-light ground floor window and one-light window on first floor. Porch corbel table continues across right gable wall as moulded first floor string. Left gable wall has two-light ground floor window and three-light first floor window. In central range, ground floor has group of four lights to right of four-light window, and two-light window on first floor to right of three-light window. Ridge stacks at each end of central range.

East front; two storey, one window gable wall to left of two storey, four bay range with irregular fenestration. Left-of-centre and left end stacks. Windows throughout are mullioned with square-leaded casement lights in hollow-chamfered surrounds. Ground floor windows (except those in crossgables) have flat hoodmoulds. Plain bargeboards to all gables.

Interior not inspected but Sales Particulars of 1984 refer to Art Deco fire surrounds in Drawing- and Sitting-rooms, a galleried landing and an oak staircase with carved balusters.

W.Shaw Sparrow, The Modern House, c.1904, p.40.

Listing NGR: NZ8324401346