REYNOLDS PARK LODGE (Dove Park Lodge), Woolton Hill Road
1888 (L.W.L.B. Minutes.)
Architects - F.&G. Holme

From Woolton Hill Road this is a deceptively small building, a single-storey gable, with a stone plinth and so modelled as to suggest an inglenook. The gable is embellished with a vigorous stone cartouche and a cinquefoil, and the body of the wall has been pebbledashed quite recently so that we can only surmise that the structure is stone. The side to the right contains the front door and stone mullioned windows - from the detail of the mouldings of the mullions we can be sure that the architect here was not also the designer of the lodge in Church Road of the same date, curious though that may seem. There are handsome stone corbels above the splay of the corner and the slate roof has a terracotta cresting. The whole design shows an appreciation of materials and a sensitivity in their use which is typical of this date.

The stone gate piers of the entrance to what was formerly 'Dennison's Road' - the driveway leading to his house - are now painted white and the balusters in the wooden gate are 'Jacobethan'. As we move on in to the park we can see that the lodge is bigger than it appears at first sight.

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