Description
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
1. 513O BRIDGE ROAD (south side) No 156 (Oldfield Lodge) SU 8981 SE (formerly listed as Old 6/24 27.2.5O Lodge)
II*
2.
Late C18 built for Count de Crecy 179O. 3 storeys yellow stock brick, moulded stone cornice, parapet with moulded stone coping and balustrade panels over windows, hipped slate roof and flanking chimneys. Three windows with glazing bars and red brick arches on 2nd floor the one on RH blocked and painted in. On first floor the principal floor, two Parradian windows in arched recesses with radiating fan ornament in tympamum, that on RH blocked and painted in.
Central six-panelled door with side lights and radiating fanlight in similar surround approached by flight of moulded stone steps with central landing and plain tailings.
Three windows ground floor with glazing bars, semi-circular head with pilasters and moulded surround.
Screen wall to road has brick piers with stone strings, moulded stone caps with composite rosettes between. Gate piers have original wrought iron lampholders.
Interior:- Entrance hall has pilasters with ancanthus caps, plaster frieze and delicate cornice with double scrolled brackets and semi-circular fans. Staircase hall with an elegant elliptical stair, plain balusters and wreathed handrail, similar frieze and cornice to entrance.
Reception rooms, decorative frieze and cornices, simple marble fire surrounds. Simple reeded columns in bedrooms.
Pevsner p 175.
Listing NGR: SU8998481331
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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1606 IOE Records taken by Chris Pooley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
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© Mr Chris Pooley. Source: Historic England Archive
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Photographer: Pooley, Chris
Rights Holder: Pooley, Chris
Keywords
Brick, Slate, Stone, Wrought Iron, Georgian Lodge, Domestic, Gate Pier, Unassigned, Steps, Transport, Pedestrian Transport Site, Lamp Bracket, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Street Furniture, Curtain Wall, Monument (By Form), Wall, Barrier, Defence, Fortification