Description

WINSFORD FORMER U.D. WHITEGATE ROAD
SJ 67 SW
1/131 Monkey Lodge.
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- II
Lodge, now private house. Mid/Late C18 with addition of 1814. Red
random bond brick with slate roof. Two storeys. The end of the
building nearest the road is of C19 date, that to the rear of the C18.
Road (entrance) Front: central ground floor doorway with gabled porch
and timber lower body with moulded posts and decorated bargeboards and
bargepost. To right and left are single-light casement windows. To
the centre of the first floor is a 2-light casement window and to
either side of this are square plaster panels with bolection moulded
surrounds containing oval panels, also with bolection moulded
surrounds. That to left shows a mermaid playing a trumpet: that to
right shows a mermaid combing her hair and looking in a mirror, both
having girdles of seaweed and both in relief as are all of the figures
in panels. The gable above, which is half-hipped has two trapezoid
panels with bolection moulded surrounds. That at left showing a man
riding a dolphin and carrying a crossbow, that to right showing a man
riding a horse with a fishes tail and carrying a trident. Right hand
side: canted oriel bow to the ground floor with a two-light casement
window above. To right and left of the ground floor window are
bolection moulded rectangular panels with oval panels to the centre.
That at right shows a dog and that at left shows a monkey playing a
horn. To either side of the first floor window are coats of arms,
that to left showing the Cholmondeley coat of arms and above in the
½-hipped gable is a panel showing a male figure in a chariot pulled by
horses across the waves. To the right of this is the C18 portion of
the building with 2 ground floor cambered-headed single-light casement
windows and one semi-dormer 2-light casement window to the first
floor. Four-light service window to left of this and an outshut to
right again.

Listing NGR: SJ6263270067

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454548

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