Buckingham Lodges, West Lodge

BUCKINGHAM

SP6934 STOWE AVENUE 879-1/5/145 (West side) 03/04/73 Buckingham Lodges; West Lodge (Formerly Listed as: STOWE AVENUE Stowe Lodge West and Stowe Lodge East)

GV II

Lodge. Built before 1809. Coursed squared limestone with limestone ashlar and Coade stone dressings, and sloping copper roof concealed by balustrades. 2-unit plan. 1-storey, 2-window range. Entrance side to south has central, 6-panel door with flat-arched head and straight stone hood on curved stone brackets. 12-pane sash windows either side, with stone sills and flat-arched heads. Rectangular recesses ornamental panels above door and windows, the former of Coade stone with scallop shell and stylized foliage, those over windows of cast lead, painted, with reliefs of the Triumph of Venus. Plinth and giant pilasters to angles with frostwork panels to front, sunk panels to sides. Deep, bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet extending round 3 sides of lodge. Balustrade is interrupted by central, rectangular pier with recessed Coade stone panel bearing relief of urn flanked by gryphons facing inwards. Panel is flanked by 2 small red terracotta paterae, one above the other. Square pedestals to each corner of balustrade with similar, larger, paterae. Circular classical altars to pedestals stamped COADE & SEELY LAMBETH at least 2 of which are chimney flues. Right side elevation of lodge has blank, round-headed arch and sunk panel above of cast lead, painted, with the Triumph of Neptune. Rear elevation has similar composition to entrance side, but with central, shell-headed niche, one blank window and different Coade stone panel to centre of balustrade with acanthus and anthemion. C20 single-storey extension to left with return. Formerly joined to East Lodge (qv) by timber rails and gate. The lodges were built for the 1st Marquis of Buckingham and stand at the head of the first slope of the great avenue leading to Stowe from Buckingham. (Gowing CN & Clarke GB: Views of Stowe: 1983-: 5,7; PL 2).

Listing NGR: SP6914634184