MSO10594 - The Lodge, Pooltown (Building)

Lodge to Chargot House (qv). Circa 1879. For John Insole. Red and glazed buff bricks, Flemish bond, steeply pitched roof, decorative ridge tiles, patterned clay tiles, overhanging eaves, sprockets, decorative bargeboards, central brick stack with moulded cap. Plan: 2 cell. Picturesque Gothic style. One and a half storeys, 2 bays, original sash windows with glazing bars, 2-light window in hipped dormer left rising from below eaves, right paired windows in gablet, one window left of gabled porch, carried on decorative wooden supports, plank door. Polychrome decoration on facade of red brick string courses and patterned tympana to voussoirs of alternating red and buff bricks, more ornate decoration on left return gable end looking onto drive to Chargot. A single storey verandah with patterned clay tile roof on decorative wooden supports originally enclosed the left return and rear elevations; a lively composition. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265364. First Listed on 5 June 1985. [2] 2-cell plan. Brick, Flemish bond walls. Gabled roof [3] The building was visited in June 2012 as part of a survey of listed buildings within the National Park. It received a score of 6. [4] The lodge was assessed as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor’s Listed Buildings 2018-19, receiving a BAR score of 4A. [5]