Description

BRIXHAM

SX85SE A379, Lupton Park
1946-1/12/273 (North East side)
Lodge to Lupton House at SX 897 542
including gate piers

GV II

Lodge to Lupton House including gate piers. c1840. Probably by
George Wightwick as part of his improvements at Lupton House
(Gramercy Hall School, Lupton House (qv)). For Sir JB
Yarde-Boller. Limestone ashlar; slate roofs gabled at ends;
stacks with octagonal stone shafts and cornices. Stone gate
piers. Tudor style. Plan: T-plan lodge with a central front
projecting wing facing the road, heated from a left lateral
stack and a main block with end stacks; porch on right return
of front wing; single-storey block adjoins front wing on left
return. Gateway immediately to the right. Exterior: 2 storeys.
Coped gables with kneelers; shallow projecting stacks with
set-offs and paired shafts. Timber casement windows with
glazing bars. Asymmetrical 1:1-window front. The wing has a
4-light ground-floor canted bay, the windows with moulded
mullions; bay has parapet decorated with blind half-roundels.
2-light first-floor mullioned windows with dripmould. Gable
has tall octagonal finial. Single-storey block has coped gable
and lancet window. Projecting gabled porch on right return of
wing with chamfered 3-centred outer doorway and plank and stud
inner door. Octagonal gate piers have moulded cornices and
shallow pyramidal caps. INTERIOR: not inspected but may retain
features of interest. Group value with coeval kennel block
(Kingswear CP) on opposite side of the A379.

Listing NGR: SX8968854223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489787

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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