Description
Probably Eustace Balfour, dated 1911. 2-storey Arts and
Crafts gate lodge with 2nd storey breaking eaves at
intervals. Pink rake-jointed rubble with droved ashlar
dressings; base course.
W ELEVATION: slightly advanced gabled bay to outer left
with chamfered corners, corbelled to square at eaves
level, and each with small window; further small windows
on return elevations and in gablehead. Doorway in
re-entrant, with small-paned upper panel to door and
dated lintel; square window under eaves above, and
flanking to right at ground. Large area of blank
wall-plane to outer right.
E ELEVATION: 3 asymmetrical bays; wide advanced gabled
bay at centre with doorway off-centre to left of gable and
stone mullioned bipartite in gable head; ground floor
window to recessed right bay and gabled dormer to 1st
floor window breaking eaves; narrower ground floor
window to recessed outer left. Modern lean-to outbuilding
flanking doorway. Small-pane glazing pattern to sash
and case windows. Grey-green slates with swept eaves.
Gablehead stack to W and wallhead stack flanking
centre bay to S. Decorative gutter fixtures.
GATEPIER: square red sandstone ashlar gatepier with
pyramid cap (remainder of form pair), with simple
wrought-iron railings adjoined to house.
Statement of Special Interest
Eustace Balfour worked in partnership with Thackeray
Turner of the SPAB, and trained in London with Basil
Champneys. Balfour executed several other works on the
Estate, but as he died on 14 February 1911, the lodge
was possibly designed solely by Turner. The boat-shaped
dormers on Tower Cottage nearby (listed separately), evidence
a similar Arts and Craft input.