Description

SP 9630-9730 MILTON BRYAN LONDON ROAD (B528)
12/60
- Milton Lodge
GV II
Entrance lodge to Battlesden House (now demolished). Probably c1860-1868 by G
H Stokes (advised by Sir Joseph Paxton) for Sir Edward Page-Turner. Red brick
with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Small T-plan structure of one storey and
attics. 2 and 3-light moulded mullion and transom windows. These have brick
aprons, and cornices of brick surmounted by ashlar. SE gable has canted bay
to ground floor. Porch within E angle. 6-panel door, rectangular fanlight,
moulded architrave with heavy keystone and impost blocks. Moulded string
course at first floor level to main elevations. Stone coping to gables and
parapets. Variety of decorative stone finials to gables. 2 slightly
projecting chimney stacks, one to side wall of each block, both with moulded
stone cornices.
D Bassett, "G H Stokes at Battlesden and Belle Vue", Architectural History,
vol 26, 1983, pp 92-5. Beds Record Cffice: T18/36, lease of 1868.

Listing NGR: SP9660530562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407799

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