Description

TL 0338 1/130
774

PARK HILL
Russett's Lodge

(Formerly listed as no. 41 (Russett's Lodge))

17.7.51.

II

Late C18 adaptation by Chambers of a small late C17 building. On a frontage
of barely 20 ft, a classical design with regular pedimented facade, containing
a plain 6-panel door flanked by severe stone pilasters, which support a
massive entablature. A narrow window on either side of the door, a larger
one on either side of the building, a small semi-circular one in the pediment.
The whole lodge is built in header courses, of red brick at the sides,
of mainly blue and other dark 'seconds' in front, the pediment infilled
with smooth-faced blue-glazed irregularly-shaped lumps of clay, in imitation
of flint-work. Heavy stone dressings: steps and plinth below, narrow
band at base of windows, long-and-short quoins and window edges, and stone
modillioned cornice. The whole classical lodge is added directly on to
a similarly shaped C17 building in red brick (English bond), with pronounced
coved eaves at a slightly lower level than Chambers' classical cornice.
Red tiled roof throughout. Originally this must have been a C17 double
cottage: the brick flat arch over a side door (of the unaltered section)
is continued over a bricked-up space for a second such door. Moreover
the pitch of (C17) roof was too steep for the correct angle of the classical
pediment, which deliberately forsakes the angle of the older tiled roof
behind it.

Listing NGR: TL0309538396

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607351

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)