Description
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
CRAVEN ROAD 1.
5128 No 17 (Headmaster's Lodge) SU 7272 9/457 II 2.
Headmaster's lodge for Reading School. Built 1840 as Penrhyn Lodge in London Road by Henry Briant. Moved to Craven Road probably 1878, architect Joshua Greenaway. Assymmetrical detached villa. 2 storeys, coursed dressed stone.
3 bays, mullion and transom windows with hoodmoulds. Slate roof with lozenge bands. Corbels to parapet continued up 3 gables to west - the left hand gable breaks forward; the centre gable is small for a badge and a projecting gabled porch with chamfered shafted corners; the right hand gable has parapetted angled bay. Lower 2 storey extension with gabled return to left. South front has oriel on grotesque corbel and has head stops to 1st floor right hand window.
Steps to east entrance with carved eagle on top of flight.
Listing NGR: SU7259872805
Content
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 Ioe Records Taken By Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
Rights
© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
People & Organisations
Photographer: Jackson, Pamela
Rights Holder: Jackson, Pamela
Keywords
Stone, Slate, Victorian Teachers House, Domestic, House, Dwelling, Villa, Agriculture And Subsistence, Land Use Site, Steps, Transport, Pedestrian Transport Site