Description

MALDON

TL8407SE LODGE ROAD
574-1/6/131 (North East side)
24/09/71 The Lodge and stables to south-east
(Formerly Listed as:
LODGE ROAD
The Lodge)

GV II

Officers' mess, later used as hospital, now old people's home.
Early C19. Grey Gault brick with some white weatherboarding
and slate hipped roofs with numerous rendered stacks. L-plan
form.
EXTERIOR: substantially of single storey, but with lower
storey built into hill slope as sub-basement. The short
south-west elevation of main block has two 12-pane sash
windows with sills at ground level. To the east of these is a
projecting parapeted corner block with a door in the flank and
a small-paned sash window with shutters. Linking to the corner
of this is a length of wrought-iron handrail with Gothick
balustrade.
The long north-west face of the rear block has two 12-pane
sash windows with reeded surrounds. The shorter south-west
face of this part has a slate hipped bay window, a C20 lean-to
greenhouse and a bell cupola on roof with lead covoid roof,
finial, and frilly eaves. The south-east elevation is partly
of white boarding and has 3 lead-covered flat-roofed dormers
and slated lean-to. The 2-storey north-east elevation has
white weatherboarding over painted brick and four 12-pane sash
windows on 1st floor. The ground floor has 4 small-paned
horizontal-sliding casement windows; 2 doors, C20 small-paned
French window and tall stack.
Single-storey stable block to south-east of brick with hipped
plain tile roof and 2 circular windows with radiating glazing
bars.
INTERIOR: some early C19 detail including reeded door
architraves with roundels in corners.
HISTORY: thought to be former officers' mess during Napoleonic
Wars, later used as hospital.

Listing NGR: TL8456407283

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548100

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