Description

TOTTON AND ELING

SU 31 SE TESTWOOD LANE, Totton

1860-0/5/10010
No.90
Great Testwood Lodge

II

Gateway lodge to country house. Mid to late C18, possibly by Capability Brown; extended C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with flint dressings. Pyramidal roof, re-clad in concrete tiles; moulded brick eaves cornice. Brick lateral stack on north side. PLAN: Square-on-plan Palladian lodge; one room on ground floor with entrance on the east side facing the drive and with C20 outshut on the north side and small C20 addition at the rear [west]. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Ground floor brick and flint rustication with brick band above; each side one bay with large recessed round arch with a 3-light Diocletian-like window on the first floor, that on the south side has been converted to single-light sash and blind on the north side. Doorway on the east side with flush-panel door and late C19 tiled canopy on wooden braces. C19 4-pane sashes on the south side, small C20 glazed addition on the west side and C20 outshut on the north side. INTERIOR not inspected. NOTE: The lodge has been attributed to Capability Brown, who remodelled the grounds at Great Testwood in about 1765. The house, Great Testwood Park, was demolished in the 1930s. SOURCE: Stroud, D., Capability Brown, pp 108 and 242.

Listing NGR: SU3582014074

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550530

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