Description

NESTON

SJ37NW BIRKENHEAD ROAD, Willaston
794-1/2/111 (West side)
Lydiate Lodge

GV II

Lodge. c1857 with later extension. Coursed rock-faced red
sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; slate roof
with timber eaves cornice and rusticated conjoined stacks with
ashlar modillion cornices.
EXTERIOR: entrance front: single storey, 3 bays, with
extension to left. Centre of original front projects as gabled
open pedimented frontispiece with glazed and sunk panelled
door in moulded surround beneath floating cornice hood on
carved consoles. On each side are round-headed slit windows of
4 vertical panes. Bays flanking entrance projection have
round-headed sashes, each sash divided horizontally into 2
panes, in keyed round-arched openings with corbel stops.
Moulded and modillioned eaves cornice.
Street front: single storey, 4 bays. Projecting end gabled
bays each with three small round-headed sash windows as
entrance front, beneath arcaded hoods with keystones and
corbel stops. These bays are under simple gable pediments. The
inner bays have two sets of casements in pairs. All windows
have steeply weathered stone sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3208278332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667282

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)