Description

1.
5130 RAY PARK AVENUE
(west side)

SU 8981 SE 27.2.50 Ray Lodge
6/22 (formerly listed under listed under
Bridge Road)

II

2.
Now flats. Mid C18 3 storeys, and basement. Red brick with parapet and painted
dentil cornice. Hipped slate roof and flanking chimneys. South front, 6 windows
double hung sash with glazing bars, stone cills on upper floors. 4 windows on ground
floor without bars, central timber Doric portico pediment cornices frieze on four
fluted columns without bases and capitals and pilasters, approached by broad flight of
twelve stone steps with simple iron railings. Central door flanked by 2 windows under
portico. 4 windows in basement. North elevation six double hung sashes with glazing
bars 2nd floor. 1st floor has four windows with glazing bars and central Palladian
window under large gauged brick relieving arch, now partly covered by C19 service
tower extension. Two flanking 2 storey Pavilions, brick with moulded wood cornice,
each 3 windows and central chimney, and linked across front by a tall tuscan colonnade
of nine bays. Slender wood columns on moulded plinths carried up to height of
basement and ground floors. Centre breaks forward to form a portico with 2 columns
widely spaced in front and 3 at sides. There are 3 columns on either side of portico
and pilasters against the Pavilions.

Interior:- some internal shutters remain and decorative plaster ceilings and cornices
Ionic columns in former ground floor reception room and Doric columns supporting 3
arches in original stair hall now altered. The whole has been converted into flats
and main rooms divided by modern partitions. Pevsner p 175.

Listing NGR: SU8983981446

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411104

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