Description

POWDERHAM
SX 98 NE

3/342 Red Lodge

- II

House, formerly lodge to Powderham Castle at the entrance of what was a private
drive. 1830 with late C20 rear addition. Colourwashed plastered red sandstone ;
ornamental tiled roof, gabled at endswithcbpedgables and kneelers ; 2 rear lateral
stone stacks with brick shafts. Tudor style.
Plan: A single depth main block with a central entrance facing the stair with heated
rooms to left and right ; rear centre wing with a 2 span roof. The lodge was
formerly 2 dwellings and divided down the centre, each dwelling having one heated
room, half the rear wing and sharing the porch on the front. Late C20 single-storey
rear addition with a flat roof.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a 2-storey porch in the centre
with a coped gable with kneelers and a chamfered Tudor arched stone doorway in the
centre with a C20 inner door. Stone shield above the door carved with the Courtenay
torteaux; 3-light mullioned oriel window on brackets to the first floor of the porch,
2-light mullioned windows to left and right. All the windows on the front elevation
have pretty ornamental leaded panes. The returns have canted bay windows to the
ground floor and 2-light mullioned windows to the first floor with square leaded
panes ; similar mullioned windows to the rear wing.
Interior: Modernized. The original stair is intact, the partition which divided it
into 2 has been removed.
A substantial lodge with good exterior detail on a prominent site at the junction of
the main road to Kenton and the road to Powderham.

Listing NGR: SX9515285478

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26463724

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