Description

SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON

1/189 Wood House Lodge

GV II

Lodge to Wood House (q.v.). 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson or Dan Gibson, renovated and
enlarged circa 1980. Roughcast walls and stacks of stone rubble or brick; granite
ashlar detail; slate roof.
Plan: originally a 2- or 3-room plan cottage facing onto the drive to north. T-
shaped plan with 2-room main block and right end gable end stack. Gabled bay
projects forward just left of centre. This may originally have been a separate room
and it has a projecting lateral stack on the left side. Entrance porch in angle of
front bay (right side) and main block. Circa 1980 the rooms were all knocked into
one and new service rooms built onto the rear. Single storey.
Exterior: the gabled front end of the bay has a canted bay window with 2-lights each
side; granite mullioned with roll-moulded elliptical head lights and sunken
spandrels. It contains replacement rectangular panes of leaded glass. To right of
the bay a plain granite mullioned 2-light window with simple slate dripcourse above
(a 3-light version in the right end wail). Panelled oak door to porch. Roofs are
gable-ended.
Interior: is largely the result of the circa 1980 renovation.
This lodge is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to go with
the rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). Mawson himself considered the whole scheme as
one of his major achievements.
Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes
copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.

Listing NGR: SX6531095699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611614

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)