Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW AUDLEY PARK, Audley End
669-1/3/336 Northend Lodge
01/11/72
(Formerly Listed as:
AUDLEY END
Northend Lodge)

II

Lodge to Audley End House (qv). Mid C19, `Tudor' style red
brick, mainly in English bond with black pointing. Low pitched
slate roofs. T plan with splayed exterior corners facing W. 2
storeys with pierced parapet in moulded brick and with 2
moulded string courses below parapet and first floor. 4 groups
of tall clustered `Tudor' stacks behind parapets, also in
moulded brick. All windows have double chamfered brick
reveals, shallow voussoired segment heads and splayed
composition sills. Within all but one are tall, narrow, wooden
casements with glazing bars, 1x4 panes.
Front, W elevation (bar of T) 5 window range with central
projecting porch carried up above parapet with curvilinear
gables to each face enclosing a slated spirelet. Central
wooden framed porch doorway has side lights in house style and
also overlights, door has 2 upper glazed panels and lower
flush bead-moulded boarded panel. Above, first floor, double
casement window in house style, 2x4 panes. Either side of
porch, 2 window range. Also, outer splayed faces having a
single window on both floors. Rear, E elevation (stem of T)
irregular, splayed corners with windows and parapet as rest of
house, also outer windows. Centre of elevation, ground floor
has window to N and doorway to S. Door has 2 upper glazed
panels and 3 lower flush bead decorated panels. First floor
has a central blind window aperture. Pair of stacks behind
parapet off centre to N.
S side elevation 2 units, W one deeper breaking forward with 4
window range and windowed corner splays. Unit to E of 3 window
range with similar windowed E end splay. Central first floor
window blind. Single ground and first floor windows in return
wall between units. 3 groups of clustered chimney shafts
visible behind parapet. N side elevation similar to S but
somewhat irregular in W unit where ground floor has 3 windows
and one blind aperture, also door similar to one on rear E
elevation. First floor, 4 window range but central pair out of
phase with those below. Corner splays with windows in house
style. INTERIOR now all re-worked.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex:
London: 1965-: 65).

Listing NGR: TL5214239492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585350

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