St Michael's Lodge

The entrance lodge for the former St Michael’s Free Home for Consumptives, by William Butterfield, built in 1878.

MATERIALS: local rubble stone quarried in the Mendips, with Bath-stone dressing and half-timber cladding, all under a tile roof.

PLAN: an L-shaped footprint on an east-to-west alignment.

EXTERIOR: on the west side is a canted bay with arched openings to the north and south designed to provide pedestrian access to the estate. The south opening has been in-filled to form a window. The west side contains two single-light tracery-headed windows. The original gate lever mechanism survives within this bay. The main house has a T-shape plan. The windows in the house are all uPVC replacements. The south elevation is a single bay and is flanked by clasping buttress with a short length of attached yard wall running to the west. The north elevation is decorated with ashlar stone to the ground floor, and applied timber framing and a barge board with scroll brackets to the first floor. To the east is a two-storey wing incorporating the hipped stairwell. Beyond is a single-storey half-hipped former stable wing (now a garage). The east elevation contains the enlarged garage door with a hay loft and applied timber framing above. The south return contains a rear entrance and three arrow-slit openings and the north includes an arrangement of four trefoil vents. The tile roof has stone-clad stacks topped by hexagonal pots.

INTERIOR: the rooms are arranged around a central corridor. The dog-leg stair case has a painted timber balustrade and the surviving timber fire surrounds are in the same style as the main house.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/09/2015