Description

1.
5130 GUARDS CLUB ROAD
(east side)

SU 98 SW Old field
2/35

II GV

2.
Late C19 - early C20. Former Guards Club. Large irregular idiosyncratic building, 2
storeys and attic, plain tile roofs with gables, hips, half hips and octagonal
turret. Entrance front:- entrance to LH under timber framed and brick gabled porch.
Gable to LH with carved, pierced cuspen bargeboard and alternating timber and plaster
panels. First floor decorative tile hanging, ground floor brick with sandstone
dressings to casement windows. Central portion, 2 storey red brick with stone panel
and dressings, first floor stone mullioned and transomed window with 2 semi-circular
headed lights, carved decoration in spandrels and ornamental leaded glazing. Ground
floor stone panel with emi-circular window under drip mould flanked by carved
decorative escutcheons. To RH half hipped gable with decorative bargeboard
alternating timber and plaster panels, decorative tile hanging, red brick and stone
dressings. River front, octagonal turret with belvedere to RH 1st floor mock Tudor
alternating timber and plaster panels. Ground floor red brick with slender timber
verandah. Lead roofed circular oriel turret on corner. Variety of gables with
carved, cusped and pierced bargeboards. At river front, a boathouse contemporary with
Oldfield, timber framed, gables and pitched roof of corrugated iron. Partly supported
on yellow stock brick wall extending from Lodge. Interior has large stairs hall with
imposing staircase with carved balusters. Pevsner p 175.

Listing NGR: SU9006881201

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429406

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)