Description

MEDMENHAM HENLEY ROAD
SU 88 SW
(south side)
8/139 Kingfisher Lodge
-
- II
House, formerly gardener's cottage for Wittington. Circa 1898. By
Sir Reginald Blomfield, for Hudson Ewbanke Kearley. Red brick with
colourwashed roughcast base walls and chamfered quoins of Ham stone.
Flat wooden eaves, hipped roof of Westmorland slate. Small
rectangular building of one storey and an attic. W. front has
small sash with gauged brick head to right, hipped dormer with sash
and slate cheeks, and 6-panelled door to left with leaded fanlight
and segmental wooden cornice hood on shaped scroll brackets.
Projecting brick wall to left with stone coping and stone ball
finial to front pier. S. front has 3-pane sashes flanking later C20
French doors, all with gauged heads and stone keyblocks. 3 hipped
dormers as on W. front. French doors are approached via brick bridge
over stream. Later garage extension to rear.

Listing NGR: SU8170784236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418583

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)