New Lodge, Gate Lodge, Holnicote Estate

Summary

A very late (20th century) example of a lodge, built by Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland to serve Holnicote House. Two storey, roof of decorative red tiling over walls of red sandstone rubble.

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Two storey house with L-shaped plan and two large bay windows overlooking the road and drive. Roof ridge T-shaped, giving three gables with a louvred vent in each. Pentice roof over bay windows in north and west walls, continue as porch over front door. Small lean-to on south side, single storey with gabled roof over back lobby and reverse pitch over utility room, valley between the two roofs.

Decorative red tiling. Three rows of plain rectangular tiles alternating with three rows of fish-scales - single row of latter along eaves. Six new tiles, should be weathered over. Five fish- scale tiles have been replaced by rectangular ones. Six fish- scales ( weathered) in rectangular positions. Should be swapped round. Ridge of plain red tiles, cement has gone so these probably leak. Pentice roofs on north and west fronts as main roof, on curbed wood brackets. Roof over lean-to back lobby of clear PVC, with rectangular red tiles over utility room, some of which are loose. Cast iron gutters and down-pipes.

Walls red sandstone rubble, dressed on outer face, with ribbon pointing ( not original). Segmental stone arches over windows, concrete sills with rain groove beneath. Squared stones in quoins and jambs. Possible bitumen damp-course. Above back door, cast concrete eaves, with rain groove under, as sills.

1916 - 17 built as the eastern lodge for Holnicote House. Construction accounts appear in Holnicote Estate Yard account book for this period ( Devon Record Office). Designed by Donati, the Estate Agent, built by Ralph Radford, the Estate Mason, under the Clerk of Works, Jack Parkhouse, who lived at Milhams ( 115,045). in the 1960s the bathroom was inserted in the larder.

Important Features:
External appearance as lodge house.
original wooden gates and posts.
Bay window facing road and drive.
Original diamond leaded windows.
Late 19c type roof trusses.
Moulded wood fireplaces on first floor.
Doors with mouldings as fireplaces.

In a fair state of repair, but roof has been insulated with liquid polystyrene - this will cause sever rotting, as timbers cannot breathe. It is possible that rot has already set in, as some of the ridge tiles have lost their mortar.

Outbuildings:

Fuel Store: Small, square lean-to building with single pitch roof to east. Roof of plain rectangular tiles, some loose. Walls random red sandstone and grey rubble, dressed on surface with squared quoins and jambs. Segmental stone arch over door. Built with house, 1916 - 17. Important feature: external appearance. In a fair state of repair. Several tiles loose on roof, middle purlin rotten at east end, also bottom of door ( weatherboard missing). [1]

The gate lodge was recorded as part of the Holnicote Estate Survey in 2001 and is described as: 'very late example of a lodge, built on a green field site by Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland in 1916-1917 on the east drive to Holnicote House from the main road (now the A39). It has bay windows facing both the road and drive, windows all have diamond paned leaded lights. The house was designed by Mr Donati, the Estate agent, and built by Ralph Radford, the Estate mason, under Jack Parkhouse, who was the Clerk of Works' [2].

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