Description

MONTFORD C.P. NIB HEATH SJ 41 MW 5/150 Adcote Lodge - - II

Gate lodge to Adcote. Dated 1879. By Richard Norman Shaw. Tooled red/grey sandstone with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. In a Domestic Revival style. One storey and attic. East front: chamfered plinth, chamfered ground-floor string course, chamfered first-floor cill band, and parapeted gables with chamfered coping and gabled kneelers (truncated finial to left-hand gable end). Projecting red brick stack to rear, with ashlar dressings, small chamfered square window, pitched- roofed link to attic and brick shaft with oversailing top. Central raking dormer with 3-light wooden casement. Full-height gabled square bay to left with chamfered mullioned stone windows of 1:2:2:1 lights with king mullion. Ground-floor square bay to right with paired chamfered cross windows to front and single lights with transoms in returns. Central recessed porch with double-chamfered elliptical arch dying into responds; hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway and boarded door with strap hinges. Lower eaves to centre forming porch supported on chamfered brackets and wall plates with shaped ends. Right-hand gable end with 3-light chamfered stone mullioned attic window and left-hand gable end with ground-floor one-light chamfered stone window to left, and central chamfered rectangular panel to attic containing dated shield, with superscribed lettering: "18 RD 79". Catslide roof at rear with change of pitch. Interior not inspected. The lodge is located at the main entrance to Adcote (q.v.), an important country house of 1876-81, also by Richard Norman Shaw. Adcote is in the Parish of Little Ness. B.0.E., pp. 52-3; Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw (1976), pp. 100-2, 110-1, and p.416.

Listing NGR: SJ4166018666

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