East Lodge, Mount Stuart House

Late 19th century. Asymmetrical, 2-storey, 2-bay Old English style half-timbered house with single storey, single bay pitched addition to outer left. Whitewashed harl. Raised, painted string course; painted margins; dormers breaking overhanging timber bracketed eaves. 3-bay arcaded verandah to front; whitewashed harl (part whitewashed brick) single storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding to NW.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; pitched verandah to entrance front extending to outer right comprising red brick plinths beneath stop-chamfered square-plan timber shafts, timber brackets, kingposts and braces; single window at ground in bay to left of entrance; single dormer above. Single window centred in single bay addition to outer left.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-light canted windows at ground and 1st floors in advanced, gabled bay to left of centre; single storey pitched verandah to outer left; single windows at both floors in recessed bay to outer right.

Predominantly leaded timber casement glazing. Red clay tile roofing (some fish-scale detailing); decorative terracotta ridge-tiling; finialed gableheads. Coped ridge and apex stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION OUTBUILDING: timber entrance in bay to outer right; single window in flanking bay to left. Graded grey slate piend.