The Lodge

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TQ 15 SW
6/10000

EFFINGHAM
LOWER ROAD
The Lodge

II

Large house, recently school and nursing home. The east wing was built between 1835 and 1841 by Captain William Manning. In 1897 the railway engineer George Saunders Pauling, who had made his fortune in South Africa and Rhodesia, added a massive porte-cochère and a few rooms to the east and a large galleried wing to the west. Italianate style. Original house stuccoed with incised lines to imitate masonry and wide wooden bracketed eaves cornice, rest stuccoed with bands of rustication. Slate roof and stuccoed chimney stacks.

Original house of two storeys with four windows to north-east and five to south-east. Contemporary three storey service wing with four sashes to north-west. Other windows are twelve-pane casements to first floor and mullioned and transomed French widows below. South part of garden front has a right side projecting pediment with first floor casement and four-light French window below. The central bay is recessed with similar casement to first floor and French window with cornice and brackets above to ground floor. To the left is a shallow curved bay with three casements to the first floor and three French windows with cornices and brackets.

North-east or entrance front has to left two-storey curved bay with casement to first floor and French window with cornice and bracket below. First floor has three other twelve-pane casement windows. The ground floor is obscured by a massive porte-cochère of 1897 stuccoed with balustraded parapet, tuscan column and two round-headed arches to front, doorcase with curved pediment and side lights and two side windows with shell moulding above. One storey one bay addition of 1897 to right and two storey one bay addition of 1897 to right of this with rusticated ground floor and mullioned and transomed casements with cornices and brackets to ground floor windows.

To the south-west is large 1897 wing of two to three storeys. To the extreme right is a three storey canted bay with lookout on second floor three twelve-pane casements to upper floor and one window on ground floor. To the left set back are three further twelve pane casements with curved bay to ground floor with three four-light French windows with cornice and brackets. Left corner has shallow two storey bay with three twelve-pane casements to first floor and three French windows to ground floor. South-west side has probable C20 flat roofed extension in matching style. North-west front has seven windows including three in two storey canted bay. Facing at right angles is the earlier period service wing now pebbledashed but with six-pane sashes to upper floor and twelve-pane sashes to ground floor.

The original building has a huge ground floor reception room, comprised of three rooms. The corner room has an oval ceiling and underneath the pedimented projection a ceiling painting depicting cherubs. c1840 marble fireplaces and c1897 built-in seat with delicate carved wooden display cabinet above. The central room has a ceiling painting of a lady reading a book flanked by cherubs. The next room has a painted ceiling depicting Venus in a chariot drawn by doves with five cherubs bearing garlands. Door surrounds to these rooms have cornices with brackets, swag and paterae friezes and paterae to architraves. Columned feature divides rooms. Same six panelled doors. Principal first floor bedroom has cornice with oak leaf moulding. Earlier service wing retains servants staircase with stick balusters and column newels.

Other internal features are of c1897. Large panelled entrance hall has stone four centred fireplace with elaborate overmantel with swansneck pediment. Oval cupola. Massive staircase hall with oak Jacobean style staircase with two round-headed wooden niches at first floor level with plastered surrounds and gallery. At the base of the staircase, is a built-in L-shaped seat and fireplace with tiled surround. Large Dining Room is panelled but with deep plastered cornice with swags and wave, strapwork ceiling and stone four centred fireplace with pilastered overmantel. Reception Room three has a c1897 circular metal and glazed dome and wooden fireplace with eaved architraves and swags probably resited from the earlier wing. Reception Room four has a later C19 four centred arched stone fireplace. At the centre of the 1897 wing is an elaborate two storey gallery with curved balconettes at each end, elaborate door surrounds with cornices and brackets with swag moulding and original palton tiled floor.

George Saunders Pauling was a local benefactor having built and endowed the local Roman Catholic Church "Our Lady of Sorrows" in 1913.

Listing NGR: TQ1187053786

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