Shere Manor House (East Lodge)
Guildford
Upper Street
Surrey, England
GU5 9JF
At the Tilford lodge of 1894, Lutyens used local stone, roughcast, tile and oak in a compact Y‑shaped, two‑storey, jettied design with a dominant triple chimney stack, ingeniously planning a tiny building that appears much larger on its awkward corner site.
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Description
Here Lutyens combines an ability to handle local materials, stone, rough-cast upper storey, tile and oak with many joinery details such as wooden pegging, with a particularly clever and unusual plan for an awkward site. The plan is splayed, with what appears to be a massive chimney at the angle of the splay. In reality the lodge is very small. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no. 53)
Lodge. 1894 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Snecked sandstone below, colourwashed roughcast above; plain tiled roofs. Compact Y-shaped plan with gabled bay at 45 degrees to street. Two storeys, jettied on first floor over dentilled moulded bressumer and braced post to end right. Shallow relief decoration to gabled bargeboards. Massive triple stack under corbelled top to angle to ranges facing street to left. One four- light leaded first floor casement on dentilled cill and one leaded square bay window to ground floor left. Planked door to right set back and approached up a flight of steps. Right hand return front: deep eaves, dentilled band over ground floor and tall dormer to rear. (Historic England, list entry 1189591)
Bibliography
Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G. (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981-31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.
Historic England.East Lodge. [Online] Accessed from: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1189591,