British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

BRAY OAKLEY GREEN ROAD
SU 97 NW
(south side)
10/12 Oakley Green
05.12.84 Braywood Lodge and attached fence
G.V. II

Lodge, now small house, and attached fence. 1869 for the Van de Weyer family. Brick, decorative
vertical tile hanging; tiled, steeply pitched gabled roof. Irregular plan with circular stair
turret with conical roof at rear. One and a half storeys. Road (north) front: projecting gable
on left, with full-height canted bay with oversailing hipped roof; decorative timber work with
rendered infill between ground-and first-floor 7-light leaded casement windows. One-bay gablet on
right side with 2-light leaded casement window at first floor; 4-light similar window below.
Brick with darker brick banding on ground floor, decorative tiling above, with alternating courses
of 2 orange and 4 black tiles. East front: alternating bands of brick on ground floor, with bands
of vertical tiling over and below a large gable to roof with pierced and carved bargeboards and
decorative timbering with painted roughcast infill. A small 2-light leaded casement oriel window
on ground floor with conical tile roof abutting wall. Entrance door on left in recessed lean-to
hipped roof porch with similar carved bargeboard and entry screen. A carved terra-cotta date panel
of 1869 with the interwoven initials of the Van de Weyer family. A wooden fence enclosing the
front garden in 4 bays of squared pattern with cross formation above. A small latch gate and large
entrance gate of similar pattern between large posts with 3-stage pyramidal tops. All of a similar
date to the lodge. This lodge, together with Braywood Cottage, was part of the former estate of
the Van de Weyer family; the family house, New Lodge, is listed separately (10/30).


Listing NGR: SU9202376055

Source: English Heritage

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