Description

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO57SW OVERTON
482-1/9/171 The Lodge
12/11/54

GV II*

Country house. Probably 1783 with earlier core. By Thomas
Symonds of Hereford. Painted stone ashlar with parapeted
part-hipped slate roof and part-rendered brick ridge and end
stacks. Late Classical style with channelled rusticated
plinth, corner pilasters, storey bands and cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement. Entrance front is a
5-window range disposed 1:3:1, the centre slightly advanced
with 4/4:6/6:4/4 sashes over a Roman Doric porch with 4
columns supporting an entablature, with triglyph and paterae
frieze and balustrade. The centre first-floor window has
console brackets and swagged frieze. Over this section the
parapet is swept up and there is a flat-topped frontispiece
with 2/2:3/3:2/2 sashes and 4 balls above. To either side of
the central section are 6/6 sashes with moulded architraves,
the ground floor with husk swags. A flight of steps leads up
to the porch which has glazed double doors and 2/4 sashes
within, and balustrades under the sashes and to sides. Windows
in basement and ornamental semicircular openings under porch.
Returned fronts are 3- and 4-window ranges of 6/6 sashes and a
similar canted bay each with 6/6 sashes, plinth, balustrades
below the windows, and balustraded parapet. 2-light dormers
behind main roof parapet. Behind the left front is a
single-storey service range linking to the stables (qv) and
behind the right front a projecting range with simple canted
bay and two 6/6 sashes over, with further single-storey wing
behind.
INTERIOR: fine cantilevered stone staircase with
lyre-patterned cast-iron balusters, and chimneypieces with
scrolled consoles on fluted Ionic columns.

Listing NGR: SO5001172178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551679

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