Listed Building record MDO15361 - The Old Lodge, 92 Alumhurst Road, Westbourne, Bournemouth

A picturesque asymmetrical house built about 1850 with original decorative barge-boards and a plain plaster shield over scroll with lettering 'The Old Lodge'. One storey and attic with walls of buff brick decorative tiled roof.

Lodge. c1850. Buff brick, hipped roof with 3 rows plain and 3 rows fish-scale tiles alternating,and decorative rides. A picturesque asymmetrical building with original decorative barge-boards. One storey and attic, gabled front contains oriel over tiled porch hood over plank door in 4-centred arch and flanked by simplified unfluted Doric columns on heavy stopped-chamfer bases and single light casement on return- Two-light dormer to right over 2-light casement in raised surround; right gabled return has large square bay in 1:3:1 lighbplus transome. All windows with elongated octagon plus small square panes to glazing bars. Over the bay a plain plaster shield over scroll with lettering 'The Old Lodge'. This is unusually well retained in its original detail.

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

Record last edited

May 22 2015 3:06PM