Description

GREAT ALNE

SP15NW THE PARK

539-0/7/10001 West Lodge

GV II

Lodge. Circa 1878 by G.H. Hunt of London, for Daniel Radcliffe of Birmingham; extended circa late C20. Rock-face coursed sandstone ground floor and sham timber-framing above. Plain-tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends and hipped corner, crested ridge-tiles with end finials and panelled bargeboards. Red brick lateral stacks with set-offs and truncated shafts, north stack is set on stone corbel-table. PLAN: L-shaped on plan with a porch in the angle and single-storey outbuildings around a small service yard at the back. Old English style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevations. East front: Projected gable-ended wing on right with stone canted bay window on ground floor and first floor jettied on large shaped brackets, first floor shallow oriel with 5-light mullion-transom window and apex of gable above jettied on moulded bressumer with small shield; to left of gable the main roof is carried down as a catslde over an open-sided porch on turned white-painted timber posts and with small balustrade on the left return over the colonnade. The left [south] return has half-hipped gable incorporating a timber-framed oriel on brackets and with coved eaves and 5-light mullion-transom window; 4-light stone mullion-transom ground floor window below. Rear [west] has lateral stack to right, small jettied gable to left of centre and small first floor window on the left corner; a range of single-storey outbuildings around a small yard on the left [north west] with a small circa late C20 wing infilling the north side. INTERIOR not inspected.
NOTE: The main house Great Alne Manor, built 1878 and by the same architect, was demolished in 1935. SOURCE: Tyack, G., Warwickshire Country Houses, p.245.

Listing NGR: SP1194659595

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558763

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