Rayners Lodge

A gate lodge to Rayners House possibly designed by David Brandon or Arthur Vernon in the 1870s.

MATERIALS & PLAN: red brick with yellow brick dressings and blue brick diapering, and a plain tiled roof with fishscale tile ornament. The building has two floors.

EXTERIOR: the south front faces the drive and has three bays with mullioned and transomed windows. At left is a projecting gabled wing which has a four-light window with lean-to roof and a three-light window to the first floor. To its right is a gabled, single-storey porch with Tudor arch and gabled head. To its right is a further four-light casement window and above it is a single-light window which rises into the roof area with a gabled head. Old photographs show that the ground-floor window at left was formerly an oriel, but that the brackets beneath it have now been replaced by red bricks. They also show that the ground-floor windows had stained glass panels to their upper lights, but these have now been removed and some have been replaced by uPVC substitutes.

The eastern face has a projecting square bay window at ground floor left with a two-light window to the centre and singe lights to the sides. At first-floor level is a gabled semi-dormer with tiled flanks.

INTERIOR: the passageways to both floors are wide. The staircase has moulded tread ends and stick balusters with turned newels and a hardwood handrail. Fire surrounds have been replaced or lost.