Listed Building record MDO8938 - Stone Lodge, Deer Park, Blandford Road, Milton Abbas

Lodge at former entrance to Park. Probably built around 1775, to designs by Sir William Chambers. It has ashlar stone walls and low-pitched slate roofs. Each face has a round-arched window with glazing bars, flanked by smaller fixed windows, i.e. a rudimentary Venetian window. There is a single-storey twentieth century extension to the south. The section adjoining the original building of flint and stone bonding. Beyond this the walls are plastered, with concrete slate roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 197 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(5) HIGHER LODGE (80580298), gateway, a little more than ½ m. N.E. of (4), has walls of Portland stone ashlar and lead-covered roofs. It is of the second half of the 18th century and comprises two single-storied lodge cottages (Plate 67) of classical design, flanking ornamental wrought-iron gates. Minor alterations were made in the 19th century. The stone gate piers have niches on the N.E. face, modillion cornices on all four sides, and ball finials. Curved wing-walls connect the piers to the symmetrical cottages on either side. Each cottage is square in plan and each façade comprises a round-headed recess within which the doors and windows are arranged. Above are classical entablatures, pedimented on the N.E. and S.W. fronts.’

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Oct 19 2016 2:40PM