Description

SNAITH AND COWICK PONTEFRACT ROAD SE 6422 (north side) 12/77 No 10 (The Lodge) 23.4.52 GV II House, now club. Mid-late C18 with alterations of c1980, including colour- wash and windows. Brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, colour- washed throughout. Pantile roof. Double-pile plan, with 2-room central entrance-hall south front, main staircase to left, secondary staircase to right, and 3 rooms to rear. 3 storeys, 5 bays; symmetrical. Step to tripartite Doric entrance with wide 6-panelled door beneath 5-pane overlight in panelled reveal, 8-pane sash sidelights in wooden architraves with moulded ashlar sills, and pilastered surround with plain entablature and central projecting columned porch with pediment. Unsympathetic C20 casements in original openings (those to second floor shorter) with projecting sills and rubbed-brick arches with double keystones. Central first-floor Venetian window with rubbed-brick pilasters and keyed arch, plain sill and lintels. Moulded stone-coped parapet and gables with plain kneelers to rear. Truncated end stacks. Side elevations have single sashes and round-headed stair windows with glazing bars and keyed arches. 2-storey rear elevation: ground floor has three 12-pane sashes and one unequal 6-pane sash in flush wooden architraves beneath keyed flat arches, inserted door beneath segmental arch, and blocked central round arch with unsympathetic inserted C20 windows; five 12-pane first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves beneath keyed flat arches; coved cornice. Interior. Entrance hall, now opened to side rooms, has ornate modillioned cornice and plasterwork ceiling rose with garlands, veined white marble floor with black insets; front rooms have ornate plaster cornices with floral friezes, grey marble pilastered chimney-piece to right flanked by half-domed alcoves with moulded panelled doors below; similar marble chimney-piece to left with paterae, reeded pilasters and frieze, flanked by fitted mahogany cupboards; ground floor rear right has moulded dado rail, cornice and spine beam, pair of arched alcoves. Good 2-flight return main staircase with ramped corniced handrail, pairs of column-on-urn balusters with square knops to each tread, large column newel and scrolled foliate brackets; 2-flight return secondary staircase with closed-string, plain balusters and moulded handrail. Dentilled cornice and pair of round-arched doors with radial fanlights to upper hall. Original stone chimney-pieces, dado rails and moulded cornices to first-floor bedrooms, the cornices to front rooms especially ornate; front right has dentilled cornice with pulvinated bay-leaf moulded frieze, Doric pilastered chimney-piece flanked by arched alcoves, and 2-fold fielded-panel connecting door to central room. Fielded-panel window shutters and doors in architraves and panelled reveals throughout. The plaster cornices, with their figured friezes, are similar to those at Cowick Hall (qv) probably dating from James Paine's alterations of the 1750s.

Listing NGR: SE6406822014

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