Description

SJ 6028-6128; 13/38

HODNET C.P..
Paradise Lodge

II

Estate lodge. Circa 1853-4. Red brick with grey sandstone ashlar
dressings. Plain tile roof. T-plan. A decorative Tudor Gothic
style. One storey and attic. Plinth with chamfered stone top,
chamfered corners with stone stops, chamfered trefoiled valences with
moulded corner pendants, chamfered cinquefoiled barge boards, and ridge
cresting. Central brick ridge stack consisting of octagonal shafts
with moulded bases and caps. East front: 2-windows; 2-light wooden
casements with chamfered stone surrounds. Central doorway with
continuously-moulded archway and half-glazed panelled door with Gothic
tracery. Full width 1:1:1 bay open porch consisting of octagonal
piers with moulded bases and capitals on pedestals with chamfered plinths,
hipped-roof with chamfered trefoiled valences and moulded corner pendants,
and central gabled break with chamfered cinquefoiled barge boards, finial
with cinquefoil-panelled pendant and ridge cresting. Each gable end
with uncarved stone shield in apex, 2-light attic casements with octagonal-
pattern glazing bars, chamfered reveals and returned hoodmould, and
ground-floor stone square bays with chamfered plinth, corbelled
battlemented parapet and 3 x 1 stone mullioned windows with octagonal-pattern
glazing bars. Hipped-roofed block in angle to south-west with sunken
pathway to chamfered Caernarvon-arched boarded doorway on road. C20
addition in angle to north-west. Plain interior. This lodge is similar
in design to one at Weston-under-Redcastle (q.v.) which was built when the
new drive to Hawkstone Hall (q.v.) was made in 1853-4.

Listing NGR: SJ6044628703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26470673

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (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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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House