North Jesmond Avenue, The Lodge

This building was listed Grade II in 2000 with the following description:
'Estate lodge. 1883. Red brick with terracotta dressing and plain tiled roofs with decorative barge boards. One gable stack and one tall wall stack. Single storey. Moulded plinth and elaborate terracotta sill band. Main facade has to right large canted wooden bay window with very deeply coved eaves decorated with two rows of plaster panels, the lower left bearing the date 1883. Central wooden lean-to porch has turned wooden columns and balusters, now glazed. To left single 4-light casement window topped with painted terracotta pediment with swag. Right return has central wall stack with decorative terracotta panels at its base, to left a single light casement with rounded pediment and to right a 2-light casement with similar broader pediment. Left return has single French window with simple segmental lintel. Small single storey extension to rear.' {1}
South Lodge to Jesmond Towers (HER 5724). Initials CM (Charles Mitchell) on the stonework. The lefthand entrance has scallop decoration. The pillar is upside down - local tradition says that this was deliberate by a disgruntled stonemason in Mitchell's employment {2}.