Description

SE13SW QUEENSBURY HIGH STREET
(south side)
Queensbury.

5/30 No. 1 (Lodge)
including
railings and
gate to the
front.

GV II

Lodge at main gates to mill complex. Built between 1868 and 1881 for
John Foster and Son. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings.
Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. L-shaped plan with rounded infill to
the angle. The two wings are gabled. Left wing gable front: ground
floor has 3-bay round-arched open porch on square piers, forming an
entrance to the mill. Elongated keystones support a deep, moulded eaves
cornice and blocking course. Road front: to the ground floor right is
a 3-light canted bay with round-arched windows. The main doorway is
in the rounded infill between the wings and is round-arched, as are the
other ground floor windows. Paired sashes to the first floor of the
wings have stilted cambered heads with elongated keystones. Deep,
bracketed eaves and moulded copings. Good ornamental tall ashlar stacks.

Dwarf ashlar wall with cast-iron railings with dog-bars. Alternate
spear-headed and clove finials. The railings return to the archway to
the left. Similar iron gates.

Listing NGR: SE1032430216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426522

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