Description

WEST FARLEIGH LOWER ROAD TQ 75 SW (North side) 2/25 Court Lodge and attached 23-5-67 outbuilding to north-west GV II

House. Early C19. Faced with Roman cement. Slate roof. Double depth. 3 storeys. Banded rustication to ground floor, channelling to upper floors. Pronounced plat band between ground and first floors. Less emphasised plat band with moulded top under second-floor windows. Flat eaves soffits with moulded wooden outer cornice. Hipped roof. Rendered stacks to right and left of centre. Small central wooden cupola. Regular 5- window front of recessed windows; nine-pane second-floor sashes, twelve-pane first-floor sashes, and paned French windows with blind boxes to ground floor. Windows of upper floors alternate with giant anthepion pilasters whose bases rest on the lower plat band. Two similar pilasters towards front of three-window left return elevation. Semi-circular single- storey bay to front of left gable end, with plain parapet continued from plat band of front elevation, bowed French windows with blind boxes, and with keystones suggested within rustication. Single-storey rendered addition with balustraded parapet to right gable end, Low two-storey addition at right-angles towards rear of left gable end, rendered, with hipped slate roof, and one tripartite sash to each floor. Outbuilding, probably formerly stable block, attached to left of two-storey addition, with channelled render to facade, and hipped slate roof. Facade has parapet, plain eaves band and central triangular pediment. Beneath pediment Doric pilasters form three bays, with paired pilasters to outer ends, under plain band or frieze. Long brick left return elevation. Interior: early C19 staircase with wreathed handrail. Rest not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7171453526

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)