Lodges at Park Hatch
The 1890 Dunsfold Road lodges, built of Bargate stone with Horsham slate roofs and Ernest George–style half-timbered gables, already display Lutyens’s individuality in the curved gateway walls with concealed pedestrian entrances and columned passages, and bear an inscription noting they were funded by prizes for Sussex cattle.
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Description
These lodges, with oak half-timbering in their gables, reflect the influence of Ernest George’s Onslow Almshouses in Guildford. The walls are of Bargate stone and the roofs covered with Horsham stone slates. There is, however, already a good deal of Lutyens’s own manner in the ‘surprise’ entrances on either side of the main gate approached under covered ways supported by squat Tuscan columns on balusters. The lodges were ‘built out of prizes won for Sussex cattle’, as the inscription tablet states. (Amery et al., 1981 cat no. 48)
Pair of LODGES on Dunsfold Road, very early work by Lutyens, 1890; the Lutyens touch is the penetration of the pedestrian doors through the wall that curves down to the gate. Passages alongside on little columns. (O’Brien et al., 2022, p.440)
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.
O’Brien, C., Nairn, I. and Cherry, B. (2022) Surrey. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press., Nairn, I., Pevsner, N. (1971) Surrey (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). 2nd edn. Yale University Press.
Butler, A., 1950. The architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: the Lutyens memorial series. Vol 1: Country Houses, Country Life: London and Scribners: New York.
