Spaunton Lodge

HUTTON-LE-HOLE LODGE ROAD SE 79 SW (east side) 7/74 Spaunton Lodge - II Shooting box. 1770 on reset datestone; extended c1850. For the Darley family. Herringbone-tooled sandstone to front; roughly tooled and hammer- dressed sandstone to rear. Pantile roof with rebuilt brick stacks. Double- depth, central-stairhall plan. 2-storey, 5-bay front, with single-storey gabled porch added to centre. Porch, approached by stone steps, encloses door of 6 recessed panels beneath blind fanlight in round-arched surround with impost band; unequal 6-pane sashes to left and right. 3-window canted bays with half-hexagonal roofs added to left and right of porch. Remaining windows are 16-pane sashes, that to ground floor right inserted later. All windows have painted stone sills and plain surrounds. Coped gables to roof and rudimentary kneeler to left; coped gable and kneelers to porch. End left and centre left and right stacks to front range of M-shaped roof. Rear: board door to right beneath divided overlight, with datestone incorporated in lintel. Oval panel to centre inscribed: M B D E S Q 1770 with foliate decoration in low relief to left and right. Left side: paired gable ends, of 2-storeys and basement. To right, an elliptical carriage arch of shaped voussoirs, now blocked.

Listing NGR: SE7000892648