Description

COUNTISBURY
SS 74 NE
4/26 The Lodge
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GV II
Gate lodge. Dated 1832 and 1853. Uncoursed stone rubble. Gable-ended plain-tile
roof with wide band of fishscale tiles. Pierced shaped barge boards with finials.
Integral stone end stack to left topped by 2 octagonal terracotta or stone shafts
with moulded bases and capitals and external stone and stack to right with chamfered
offsets, some slate hanging and topped by 2 octagonal terracotta shafts with moulded
bases and capitals.
Plan: T-plan with projecting gabled cross wing to right. Tudor Gothic style. 1
storey and attic.
Exterior: asymmetrical 2-window front with slightly projecting gabled cross-wing to
the right and large gabled half dormer to the left. 3-light wooden mullioned wooden
casements with octagonal pattern cast-iron glazing bars and returned wooden
hoodmoulds. Ground-floor canted by to right of 1:2:1 lights with hipped slate roof
and stone cill. Central 6-panelled door beaded wooden frame and returned hoodmould.
Millstone set in wall above with surround and small shield inscribed: "Nov/1953"
Stone to right of door inscribed:"JULY 1832". 1-storey lean-to to right-hand side
wall with 4-centred arched boarded doorway.
Interior: not inspected.
This is the principal lodge to Glenthorne (q.v), the house built for the Revd. W.S.
Halliday c. 1829 - 32 and later. The later date probably refers to the time of
completion or later alterations. The lodge displays the influence of designs
illustrated by P. F. Robinson's Rural Architecture; or a Series of Designs for
Ornamental Cottages, published in 1823.

Listing NGR: SS7936149375

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508046

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)