Description

SP52SW MIDDLETON STONEY

5/113 Middleton Park: garage wing
26/11/51 and northern pair of forecourt
lodges
(Formerly listed as Middleton
Park)

GV II*

Subsidiary part of country house, now subdivided into dwellings. 1938 by Sir
Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lutyens for the 9th Earl of Jersey. Coursed squared
limestone with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof with rubble stacks.
Single-storey garage range is hidden from the forecourt by a solid wall pierced
only by 2 gateways with rusticated doorcases; return wall to left now has tall
shuttered sashes similar to those on the main house (q.v.). Linked
pyramid-roofed lodges, of 2 storeys plus attics, have 2-window arrangements of
2-light shuttered casements, and have hipped roof dormers plus an apex stack.
The lodge flanking the forecourt entrance has a pedimented rusticated doorway
and is linked, by a short section of wall containing a further doorway, to one
of the entrance piers bearing a stone eagle by Sir W. Reid Dick. Interiors not
inspected.
(A.S.G. Butler, The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, Vol.I, 1951; Buildings of
England: Oxfordshire, pp.703-4; Country Life, July 5th and 12th 1946, pp.28-31
and 74-77).

Listing NGR: SP5254923281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548220

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)