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Castle Lodge, 324 Portswood Road. Definitely an unusual sight

Castle Lodge, 324 Portswood Road. Definitely an unusual sight. This post is linked to previous posts of St Mary’s, South Stoneham.
The Lodge 324 Portswood Road,1940 and recently. Sometimes called Castle Lodge, it was built c1780 for General Stibbert, as an entrance lodge to Portswood House. Portswood House (third picture) stood just to the north of the present day Lawn Road; it was demolished in 1852.
Stibbert died in 1809, and was buried in St Mary’s Church, South Stoneham, where a memorial plaque erected by his eldest son, Thomas, can still be seen. By pure coincidence, I have just posted about St Mary’s!