Description

Brown and Watt, circa 1905. Pair of mirrored 2-storey and single storey lodges in Scottish 17th century style, part of the original Oldmill Poor House complex opened in 1907, at S end of viaduct (listed separately).

Grey granite with ashlar dressings. Cill course at ground. Corniced windows, moulded cills to those at 1st floor. Stone mullions. Deep overhanging eaves swept down.

QUEEN'S ROAD ELEVATIONS: each with 2-storey gabled bay flanking drive with tripartite corniced wondow to each floor and small light in gablehead with segmental lintel; outer bays single storey with single or bipartite and single windows, with further recessed single bay to extreme outer bay.

DRIVE ELEVATIONS: 3-bay, each with door to centre, small bipartite under eaves above; bipartite windows in flanking bays with semicircular gabled stone dormers breakingeaves above.

PROBATIONERY WARDS: behind each lodge, long, rectangular-plan single-storey gabled blocks with basement areas formed on falling ground. Gables to drive with keystoned Venetian windows; windows to side elevations. Timber small-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs. Broad tall stacks to rear walls of 2-storey lodge blocks with red clay cans; gablehead to companion blocks to rear.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

PIERS AND QUADRANTS: granite ashlar piers adjoining corners of lodges to drive with scrolled caps, breaking to low ashlar coped quadrant walls running at level of ground floor cills.

Statement of Interest

See listing for Main Building at Woodend Hospital, Eday Road. The lodges and their companion blocks form a striking composition, in appropriate introduction to the hospital.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17769908

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Care and Repair