Bury Lodge

SU 61 SW HAMBLEDON 10/25 Bury Lodge II Country house. Gothic design of c1850-40, with late C19 vernacular extensions at the east side. Flint walls with fine galletting, some stone dressings of the later period. Hipped slate roof (one gabled and one apse end) of different levels. The south (garden) elevation is of two storeys five (irregularly-spaced) windows, with a gabled projecting wing at the east side of one window: there is a verandah with a slate roof resting on flint columns with fluted wood caps, and a pediment projected slightly at the second bay. The upper windows are C19 casements, the lower included three long sashes and pointed (original) long windows at the 1st and 2nd bays. The west elevation shows an apse end to the main block, with a lower wing at the north side and a further lower extension which is part of the entrance feature, of 1.2.2 storeys, 1.1.3 windows: the verandah, with stone- flagged floor, continues from the south front, with coupled columns on the curve. Ground-floor Gothic windows, with small Gothic casement above the wing, and C19 casements to the 1st floor of the apse. The north elevation is marked by a single-storeyed projecting feature (once symmetrical) with a porchway, comprising a pointed arch within slender octagonal turrets (with a high parapet and pointed panel between), the recess of the porch having niches on each side and two 6-panelled doors set in at an obtuse angle; the walls of this block are of flint with stuccoed flanking octagonal buttresses and a lancet window between them and the porch. The remainder of the building, with its irregular late C19 extensions, is of vernacular style.

Listing NGR: SU6538416689