Blythe Lodge
BLYTHE LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267835
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Blythe Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BLYTHE LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267835
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Blythe Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLYTHE LODGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLYTHE LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shustoke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 21329 89799
Details
SHUSTOKE
SP 28 NW Blythe Lodge
1750-0/5/10001
II
Railway crossing-keeper's house. Circa 1839, by the Stonebridge Junction Railway Company. Rock-faced red sandstone with a5hlar quoins. Welsh slate roof with coped gable ends with corbelled kneelers and modillion eaves cornice. Stacks with red brick shafts. PLAN: Rectangular on plan with porch on left and stair turret on rear left corner. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front; gabled 2-storey porch on left with corbelled arch, string above raised over plaque and lancet above with cusped ogee heads; similar 1 and 2-light lancets on ground floor to right and in gable ends; in the apexes of the gables cusped diamond-shape panel. The windows are iron lattice casements. Octagonal stair-turret on rear left corner, in three stages with loops at base and middle stage and lancets to top stage with crenellated parapet with corbel heads and stone roof with ball-finial. Small gable at rear with lancet and C20 single-storey outshut. INTERIOR: Stone newel staircase in turret and ledged doors with cambered heads. NOTE: Blythe Lodge was built as a crossing-keeper's house on the Stonebridge Railway; It was formerly known as Maxstoke Lodge because it was built on the western approach to Maxstoke Casde [qv]. SOURCE: Waring, R., The Stonebridge Railway.
Dated: 12 November 1996
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
T A ELLINGFORD
Department of National Heritage
Listing NGR: SP2132989799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462526
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Waring, R, The Stonebridge Railway, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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