Description

SW 73 NE PERRANARWORTHAL PERRANWELL STATION

3/361 Baytree Lodge and entrance wall
and piers at roadside

GV II

Lodge to country house, known as Melingey (original house not extant) and including
gate-piers, terminal piers and entrance walling. Circa late C19. Faced coursed
local freestone with some dressed stone. Slate roofs with gable ends embellished
with pierced roundels to wooden bargeboards and open panels over collar, all carried
on corbels. Tall ashlar chimneys with cornices, over gable end, left, and over side
wall right.
L-shaped 3-room plan with square-on-plan entrance porch in the angle. Vernacular
Victorian gothic style. Extended C20 to rear.
Single storey. Plinth. North front has side wall of east wing, left, porch in angle
and gable end of north wing, right. East wing has central 3-light transommed
mullioned window with half-hipped dormer with segmental pierced bargeboard. Porch
rises as tower above other eaves tire and has steep pyramidal roof over machicolated
and moulded eaves cornice, trefoil head light to front and pointed doorway in left-
hand (east) wall. Top-glazed panelled door and single pane overlight to tympanum.
North gable end has 5-light transomed canted bay window with lower mullions of turned
columns with carved capitals. Further but less elaborate windows to other fronts.
All windows with original leaded glazing.
Interior not inspected.
Entrance wall has square coursed freestone entrance gateway and terminal piers.
Truncated finials over gate-piers and moulded capitals with ball finials over
terminal piers. Moulded copings to low wall between.

Listing NGR: SW7804939742

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596710

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)