Brickyard Lodge

CASTLE ASHBY CASTLE ASHBY PARK SP8559 12/39 Brickyard Lodge GV II

Lodge. c.1800. Coursed squared limestone, limestone dressings and some ashlar; lead and plain-tile roofs, stone internal stacks. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 2-window range. 2-light leaded windows to ground and 1st floors with ovolo-moulded stone mullions, arched heads to lights, pierced central spandrel and moulded and hollow-chanifered rectangular stone surrounds. Left end elevation facing former drive is ashlar-faced and has 2-storey canted bay with similar windows. Entrance to rear with moulded Tudor-arched doorway with cut spandrels in rectangular stone surround. Plinth, storey band, moulded stone cornice and plain stone-coped parapet concealing roof. Stacks have paired dressed stone flues with moulded cornices. Lower 2-storey, 1-window C19 extension to right end. Sitting room with bay window facing drive has panelling and bolection-aoulded stone chimney piece said to have been removed from Easton Maudit House, demolished 1801 when estate was acquired by the Comptons.

Listing NGR: SP8591659922