Building record MDO47055 - Alice Lodge (West Lodge), Holt

Cottage Orne, formerly a lodge, is an early 19th century singlestorey brick walled cottage with an attic and thatched roofs. Theconical roof has cusped eaves. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SU 00590365) Lodge (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 34 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(29) Cottage Orné (00590365), formerly a lodge at the gateway to the park of 'Gaunt's House' (Hinton Martell (2)), is of one storey with an attic and has brick walls and thatched roofs (Plate 33); it dates from early in the 19th century. The conical roof has cusped eaves (cf. Dorset I, 149; Lyme Regis (37)).'

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB71/00991 (Index). SDO14738.

The Alice Lodge (West Lodge) at Gaunt's House. This gate lodge at the west entrance to Gaunt's House near Holt was designed in the cottage ornee style (a picturesque, rustic style of the 19th century) and built in circa 1809. It is polygonal in shape, with a conical thatched roof and thatched porch.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213244 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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