MDE21304 - The Lodge, Glenthorne (Building)

Gate lodge. Dated 1832 and 1853. Uncoursed stone rubble. Gable-ended plain-tile roof with wide band of fishscale tiles. Pierced shaped barge boards with finials. Integral stone end stack to left topped by 2 octagonal terracotta or stone shafts with moulded bases and capitals and external stone and stack to right with chamfered offsets, some slate hanging and topped by 2 octagonal terracotta shafts with moulded bases and capitals. Plan: T-plan with projecting gabled cross wing to right. Tudor Gothic style. 1 storey and attic. Exterior: asymmetrical 2-window front with slightly projecting gabled cross-wing to the right and large gabled half dormer to the left. 3-light wooden mullioned wooden casements with octagonal pattern cast-iron glazing bars and returned wooden hoodmoulds. Ground-floor canted by to right of 1:2:1 lights with hipped slate roof and stone cill. Central 6-panelled door beaded wooden frame and returned hoodmould. Millstone set in wall above with surround and small shield inscribed: "Nov/1953" Stone to right of door inscribed:"JULY 1832". 1-storey lean-to to right-hand side wall with 4-centred arched boarded doorway. Interior: not inspected. This is the principal lodge to Glenthorne (q.v), the house built for the Revd. W.S. Halliday c. 1829 - 32 and later. The later date probably refers to the time of completion or later alterations. The lodge displays the influence of designs illustrated by P. F. Robinson's Rural Architecture; or a Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages, published in 1823. [1] The building was visited in April 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [2] A structure is visible at this location on the c. 1841 Countisbury Tithe map. [3]