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Summary

Unlisted early 20th century lodge, designed by Leonard Stokes, on the eastern approach to the country house in Oakfield Park

Monument Type(s):

• GATE LODGE (Edwardian - 1904 AD to 1904 AD)

Full Description

A gate lodge is first mapped on the 3rd Epoch Ordnance Survey of 1911-12 on an eastern approach to Oakfield, a country house in its own designed landscape. No lodge seems to have previously existed in this location though an older building in the park, West Lodge, is of likely late 19th century origins. New Lodge, later called East Lodge, appears to have been designed by architect Leonard Stokes; a drawing by him of 'Lodge, Oakfield, Mortimer'<2> is almost identical to the extant building in the 21st century. It is a one and a half storey building with white rendered walls and a clay tiled roof. It has a large chimney with a row of five chimney pots; the roof runs down to a covered porch supported by posts.

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