Description

MEDMENHAM HENLEY ROAD
SU 88 SW
(north side)
8/130 Lodge Farmhouse
21.6.55
GV II*
House. C17. Flint with narrow brick dressings. Old tile roof, gables
with moulded brick copings and kneelers. External chimneys of narrow
brick with off-set heads, that to right with attached shafts, that
to rear of left bay with single shaft. L-plan. Main range of 2
storeys and attic and 2 bays, small rear wing of one storey with
cellar and part of staircase. Chamfered plinth. S. front has barred
wooden casements, renewed C20, in chamfered brick surrounds with
Tudor hoodmoulds. Ground floor and first floor have cross windows,
those to first floor with sills lowered C20, formerly shorter 2-light
windows. 2-light attic windows in tall gables. Stone sundial to left.
C18 brick extension of one storey and an attic to right, with wide
board door and 2-light barred wooden casements. Rear has 2 attic
gables, and projecting wing to left with similar gable, single lights,
and wide door in right side. Right bay has chimney, blocked ground
floor window, and cross window to first floor. Interior: large
fireplace with 4-centred chamfered arch in ground floor right room,
smaller fireplace with similar arch in left room; partition walls with
substantial timbering; stop-chamfered spine beams; old board doors;
winder stair. House occupies imposing position on spur of hill
above village. Pugin is said to have been very impressed by the
building and to have made careful studies of it.
RCHM I p. 256 Mon.8.

Listing NGR: SU8042384622

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540808

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