Description

SW 62 SE CURY

3/10 Bochym Lodge and entrance gateway
- piers

GV II

Lodge to manor house entrance and associated gate-piers. 1851 (datestone).
Serpentine ashlar with granite dressings for architectural details. Cruciform dry
Delabole slate roof with coped gable ends and central serpentine ashlar chimney.
Cruciform plan with small porches in the 2 front angles, mirrored by small square-
plan projections in the rear angles. Principal room in wing with gable facing drive.
Each gable end has canted bay window.
Single storey. Each wing of the cross has a gable end with stone coping, a ball
finial, and a stone canted bay window with stone mullions and transoms; a small gable
over the bay window has stone coping, ball finial, moulded corbelled kneelers and
oval oculus with hood-mould. All the window have original patterned leaded glass
panes. In the angles to left and right of the front wing are small stone porches
with coped gables to front and side with ball finials and moulded pointed arch
doorway to front of left-hand porch with hood-mould, and narrow square-headed opening
to side also with hood-mould; over the doorway a stone coat of arms and with original
ledged door. Rising from the intersection of the roof is a tall chimney stack also
cruciform on plan and with chamfered cornice.
Interior very complete and unaltered including fine hammer beam roof (cf. Church of
Saint Corentin) in the principal room. (This room is said to have been used for
estate business meetings).
Gate-piers are rockfaced ashlar, square-on-plan, with dressed granite pyramidal caps
surmounted by ball finials.
A remarkably complete Victorian lodge with some good quality details including the
glazing and roof structure which are particularly notable.

Listing NGR: SW6953520611

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613925

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