Listed Building record MDO23164 - Canford School Lodge, Canford Magna

Gate lodge and gateway to Canford Manor, now Canford School, built around1850 and extended, by Sir Charles Barry. It is of brick construction with stone dressings and a tiled roof. The structure is in a Tudor Revival style and consists of a gate lodge of single-depth plan with a one-room extension to the south. There is a tall moulded two-centre carriage arch set in a tall gable with an oval Canford Arms panel and flanked by shallow buttresses.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(30) CANFORD MANOR … The Stables and Coach-houses, partly rebuilt in 1963, lie S.W. of the house around a rectangular courtyard. The Lodge N.W. of the house, with arched entrance, bell turret on the N. and lodge-keeper's cottage on the S., was built c. 1850 and later extended to the S.’

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF097429 (Index). SDO14738.

CANFORD SCHOOL, CANFORD MAGNA, POOLE

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1346208 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 10 2023 4:00PM