Site:

Southcrest Lodge Hotel, Pool Bank, Southcrest

Grid Reference:    

SP 0399 6645

Description:

House, now hotel. 1921 by F.W.B. Yorke for Charles Terry, the spring manufacturer. (See Millsborough House q.v.) Brick with hipped roof behind parapet and large ridge stack. Two storeys with three-course band at first-floor level. Five-bay front with central canted bay. Rusticated quoins to end bays and shaped parapet above with urn finials. Neo-Georgian style. All cross casements. Entrance in bay 5 has surround with segmental pediment, engaged columns and round archway. Pediment encloses wreath and foliated relief decoration with date of construction and initials �CT� within wreath. Modern canopy now disfigures this entrance. 1970s extensions to sides.   

Significance:

Substantial interwar house within extensive landscaped wooded grounds by a local architect for an important local industrial figure that retains much of its original character, setting and integrity.

History:

This building........