Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ69SW MAGPIE LANE, Little Warley
723-1/9/226 (North side)
20/02/76 Little Warley Lodge
(Formerly Listed as:
MAGPIE LANE, Little Warley
Warley Lodge)
II
House, now a nursing home. Early C19. Yellow brick, hipped
slate roofs. Principal rectangular block and smaller attached
service blocks to NW end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey. NE front elevation, 5 bays with rendered
stack off-centre to NW and central projecting stuccoed Tuscan
portico with plain cornice, early C19 door with 2 reeded flush
lower panels, upper glazing with reeded glazing bars, 3x3
panes. All windows sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. 3
upper windows have louvred shutters and stuccoed reveals.
Service block to NW of 2 bays, sash windows with glazing bars,
ground floor, one 3x4 panes, one 4x4 panes, first floor, two
3x4 panes, second block set well back. SE garden elevation, 5
bays, sash windows with stuccoed reveals and sashes with
glazing bars, all 3x4 panes. All ground-floor windows have
shaped wooden blind boxes, all first floor windows have
louvred shutters. SW rear elevation, somewhat irregular.
Principal block of 3 bays, rendered stack on rear wall, off
centre to SE. Ground floor, SE-NW, one original deep sash
window with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, 2 altered windows,
central one with head blocked and inserted 2-light casement
with glazing bars, each casement 1x3 panes, window opening
deepened for French window with glazing bars, each leaf, 1x3
panes, upper fanlight casement with glazing bars, 3x2 panes.
First-floor sash windows have stuccoed reveals and glazing
bars, 3x4 panes. 2 service units to NW in 2 phases, shown by
straight joint. Irregular fenestration - segment headed
windows, plain in first block, with glazing bars in second.
C20 brick lean-to at NW end with 2-light casement window. NW
end elevation. Earlier service block with later one projecting
forward to SW. Earlier block ground floor C19 door with beaded
flush panels and upper glazing - fanlight and 2 side windows,
all under segment headed arch - second door adjacent - segment
headed arch to fanlight, C20 door with 2 glazed panels.
First-floor segment headed sash window with glazing bars, 5x4
panes. Fire-escape doorway, segment headed, C20 door with
fanlight and glazed door panel. Second projecting block,
ground floor, triple sash window, plain side lights, central
sashes with glazing bars, 3x4 panes. First floor, segment
headed sash window with glazing bars, 5x4 panes. C20 lean-to
to SW has plain C20 door.
INTERIOR: some Jacobean style panelling, re-set. Several
original doors with reeding and corner rosettes. Stair well
lit by oval lantern, geometric stair original, twisted
balusters and mahogany handrail, brackets to treads.
Listing NGR: TQ6002690844
