Listing Text

TL 41NW WARE RURAL BLAKESWARE

3/5 The Hunting Lodge
(Formerly listed under Blakesware
23.12.74 Estate)

GV II

Model estate buildings, being converted to a house. 1870's
probably by George Devey who rebuilt Blakesware for Mrs Gosselin
1876-9. A compact one and a half storeys group comprising a hall
for estate dinners and functions on the N side, a large open
sided carriage-house of equal size adjoining the S side of the
hall, and a smaller generator house at the W end of the carriage-
house. Red brick in English-bond with blue brick used for the
lower parts of the square piers of the carriage house. E gable
carriage-house dark weatherboarded but decorative timberframing
with patterned brick nogging to other gables. Steep tiled roofs
with upper part of E and W gables of hall projected in a hipped
hood over upper glazed doors and former balcony. Gabled dormer
windows in N roofslope and W side of roof of Generator house. S
elevation has 6 bays formed by brick piers with primitive oak
capitals and pads carry the wide-scan, kingpost, open roof of the
carriage-house. Similar piers to the loggia at W end of hall. N
elevation has 2 dormers in the roofslope and 5 windows. These
are timber casement windows with leaded glazing under wide
segmental arches. Similar arches to doors. Large chimney in
valley between parellel roofs of N and S ranges. Decorative estate
buildings of high quality.

Listing NGR: TL4057316386