Building record 200/5 - North Lodge to Crewe Hall Park, Slaughter Hill

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1138675 (Report). SCH1934.

Estate Lodge, 1847 (gable panel) by Blore. Red brick and stone with slate roof in Jacobean style, "T" shaped on plan. Single storey, 3 bays including both gables, which face the highway. The porch front is at angle of 45° to both gables. It has a six panel door in stone opening with semi-circular head, springers and keystone. The porch return walls, both with cross windows, form a hexagonal bay which has a pyramidal roof with finial and lead roll hips. The outer bays have flush stone dressed quoins, diaper work, and stone coped shaped gables. All windows are metal casements, those in the east gable in a hexagonal bay with flat lead roof and in a stone dressed mullion window with label in the north gable. Both gables have incised panels with Crewe Estate emblems in their apexes. Large square central stack with stone diminishing band.

<2> Liverpool Museum Field Archaeology Unit, 2000, An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of the Proposed A534 Crewe Green Link Road, R2323 (Client Report). SCH4263.