Description

SY 88 SE EAST LULWORTH PARK LODGE
8/158
Park Lodge
GV
II*

Detached house. C17, altered C18. Brick walls, colourwashed, tiled roof, central
brick stack with projecting piers and recessed cap. Two-room lobby-entrance plan,
with projecting porch/staircase tower in centre of front wall. Single-storey rear
lean-to with rubble stone walls and tiled roof. Two storeys and attics. Projecting
wing has, on ground floor, a segmental-headed doorway. Above this a projecting
brick arch of two orders - the inner order of bricks set diagonally to form a
"dentil" arch - small blocked opening within the arch. String course above arch.
First floor has a two-light stone mullioned window under similar arch. Attic, in
half-hipped gablet has a small two-light stone mullioned window. On each side of
the projecting wing, ground and first floors each have a two-light stone mullioned
window - under similar arches. String course above ground floor arches.
Internally, main ground floor rooms have large open fireplaces with moulded timber
lintels. One first floor room has fireplace with bolection moulded surround.
Panelled doors in C17 moulded frames. Staircase, early C18, with widely spaced
heavily moulded balusters. Blocked windows indicates this staircase replaces an
earlier one - possibly a newel stair. Queen post roof. Cellar under eastern
section once used as the Dower House to Lulworth Castle.
A house of unusual character.
RCHM Monument 4.

Listing NGR: SY8515883086

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540836

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)