Park Lodge

Park Lodge is a large Arts-and-Crafts villa, likely dating to the early 20th century. It is primarily one storey with an attic, and a basement on the right side, where the ground level slopes downward. The exterior walls are pebble-dashed and painted white, topped with a steep hipped tile roof. A distinctive cruciform brick stack rises from the right end. Tall stacks with triple diagonal shafts project from the eaves on the left side of the gabled bay to the left of centre, and on the left side of the central bow window. The front elevation is asymmetrical.

The main entrance is located to the left of centre, set within a three-bay porch and former loggia. The loggia features a reed-moulded band between the storeys and a similar moulding to the parapet. Originally open, the centre and left arches have been infilled with glazed panels and doors, providing access to numbers 1 and 1b; the right-hand arch remains open to the main entrance. The main entrance, now number 2, has segmental-headed double doors with studs and vertical ribs.

Windows are wooden casements, largely featuring leaded glazing. Above the central bay of the loggia is a canted two-light dormer window with its own hipped roof. To the left of the loggia, set back from the left end of the building, is a projecting two-storey bay with a higher eaves line. This section has a weatherboarded gable supported by brackets, with an attic projection on similar brackets and below the reed-moulded band. It features a six-light ground-floor window and a four-light attic window with shutters. An original ornate cast iron rainwater head and down pipe is located on the right-hand side wall.

To the right of the entrance is a bow window that extends above the main house’s eaves, featuring stone sills and deep boarded eaves leading to a swept roof with an apex finial. It has central tripartite casement windows both on the ground floor and in the attic, with transoms in the ground floor, and similar two-light outer windows. The ground floor windows have replacement plain glass in the casements, but retain original marginal glazing above the transoms. Further to the right, the ground level is lower, and the elevation has projecting boarded eaves which are slightly lower than the loggia. There are two three-light windows serving the basement and ground floors, fitted with original shutters and strap hinges. The basement has a smooth-rendered sill band. Two hipped roof dormers incorporate two-light windows.

The left end elevation features a polygonal two-light, two-storey canted bay window under a hipped roof. The right end elevation includes an original wide folding garage door on runners, flanked by shallow buttresses with offsets. Further to the right is a splayed round-headed panel door (number 3), which abuts the steep bank at the rear of the building. Directly above is a terrace with a half-glazed door flanked by casement windows. Above the garage is a four-light ground floor window. Two hipped roof dormers have two-light windows; the right-hand dormer has replacement plain glazing. The rear elevation, with gabled projections to the left end and right of centre, has casement windows and faces a steep bank.