Description

BLANKNEY MAIN STREET TF 0660 (west side) 7/12 The Lodge

GV II

Lodge Cottage. c1835 by W A Nicholson, in a Neo-Jacobean style. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. A single white brick, and 2 moulded ashlar wall stacks. Moulded chamfered plinth, flush quoins and a first floor moulded band. Single storey plus attic. Cross plan. Single bay gabled east front has a 3-light window and a 2-light window above with dripmould. South front has recessed right wing with a doorway and a single light window, behind a projecting triple arched loggia. This loggia has square Roman Doric columns, supporting moulded round arches with carved shields in the spandrels. Above a moulded cornice topped by square moulded finials with strapwork brackets and ball tops. Behind an ashlar gabled single light dormer with ornate curved gable with moulded coping and finial. To the left a projecting gable, with an ashlar bay window, square and of 4 lights below, canted and of 2-lights above, topped with an entablature and ornate strapwork finials. Beyond to the left a 2-light window, with a 2-kight gabled dormer above. To the west a five sided apsidal front. All the windows have ornate iron casements in ashlar recessed and chamfered mullion surrounds. This building is part of the complete estate village erected by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.

Listing NGR: TF0674660157

External Links

• Wikidata Q26317507

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