South Lodge, Shore Road, Shandon

J T Rochead, 1852. Single storey and attic, Jacobethan former lodge to West Shandon House. T-plan with entrance tower in re-entrant angle. Lime-washed rubble with honey-coloured sandstone margins and dressings. Shaped gables; hoodmoulds; quoin strips; blank plaques; decorative finials.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical, advanced bay at centre; shaped gable; canted bay window, sandstone mullions and transoms, half-piended ashlar roof. Slender window at centre of gablehead. Narrow round-headed windows on left return and recessed to left. Door in re-entrant angle to right at foor of tower, segmental-headed with stepped hoodmould, diagonal

buttress; quasi-broached to octagonal turret over, round-headed lancets, continuous hoodmould, cornice, lead ogival roof with finial. Modern flat-roofed addition to S built against former sandstone gatepier, rendered boundary wall curves to right around SW side.

N ELEVATION: flue projecting at centre of gable, off-set with sawtooth coping rising to apex stack.

S ELEVATION: obsured by wall. Advanced block, shaped gable. Stepped tripartite window at ground; single window at gablehead. uPVC windows. Grey slate roof with lead flashings. Broad apex stack on pedestal base, twin diamond-set stacks, that to right truncated. Ashlar coping to skews and bracketted skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.