Sinnington Lodge And Attached Garden Wall

SINNINGTON MARTON ROAD SE 78 SW (west side, off) 10/83 Sinnington Lodge and attached garden wall - II Farmhouse. Late C18; early Cl9 alteration and extension; extension raised, altered and extended further in late C19. House in red and cream brick in Flemish bond on herringbone-tooled sandstone plinth; pantile roof. Extension in red and burnt brick in English garden wall bond with slate roof. Timber doorcases to house. Central-stairhall plan, 2 rooms deep, with service extension added. Entrance front: 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows with lower 2-storey, 2-window extension to right. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath radial fanlight in open-pedimented doorcase with coved fluted capitals. To the left, below ground level, is a plank cellar door. Windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Coped gables and end stacks. Extension has 20-pane sashes to ground floor and unequal 15-pane sashes to first floor, with painted stone sills and flat arches. Central ridge stack and end right stack piercing hipped roof. Garden front: 2-storey, 3-window front with lower 2-storey extension to left. Round-arched doorcase with keystone and imposts beneath cornice hood on grooved consoles, approached by short flight of steps. Recessed door of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath blind Gothick fanlight. Over the door is a round-headed, Gothick-glazed sash window beneath a gauged brick arch. Painted stone sill rests on door cornice. Remaining windows are 16-pane sashes with painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. The only openings to the extension are 2 small fixed lights to the right of the ground and first floor. Gable ends: paired 12-pane sashes recessed beneath cambered brick arches. Interior: cut-string dogleg staircase with stick balusters, moulded handrail ramped up and wreathed at the foot around a column newel, and scrolled tread ends. All main rooms on both floors have moulded ceiling cornices and original chimney-pieces, those on the ground floor with composition mouldings. Doors of 6 raised and fielded panels survive throughout. Attic: 2 double-tiered trusses with curved principals, possibly reused crucks. In the westernmost bay 3 boxed bedframes survive against the outer wall. Garden wall: attached to the left end of the entrance front: red brick in English garden wall bond; approximately 3 metres high and raked up against the house. Pantile coping to flat section of wall and stone coping to raked-up section.

Listing NGR: SE7423784674