Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3179 LAMBETH ROAD 636-1/4/463 (South side) 27/09/72 Lodge to Imperial War Museum

GV II

Lodge, now villa. 1837. Stucco with cornice and parapet, stepped over centre with coat of arms. 1 storey, 3 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins and rusticated central section, projecting on 2 planes with segmental-arched doorway with voussoirs and cyma moulded key rising to cornice. Door deeply recessed with moulded architrave. Flanking sash windows with architrave, frieze and cornice and projecting panel below. 2-bay returns to north and south have similar details and rusticated pilaster between bays. Italianate chimney with bracketed cornice. Inscription on north wall reads: "This lodge was built and the ground enclosed and planted MDCCCXXXVII. Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman of the City of London, President. Ralph Price Esquire, Treasurer of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem". INTERIOR: not inspected. Formerly lodge to Bethlehem Hospital, now Imperial War Museum (qv).



Listing NGR: TQ3140379257

External Links

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