Baston Lodge

Baston Lodge is a residential villa in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, southern England.^[2]

TypeResidential villa

Location1 Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, England

Coordinates50°51′19″N 0°33′12″E

Completed1850

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Baston Lodge
View of the entrance on Maze Hill
Location within East Sussex
General information
Type	Residential villa
Location	1 Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, England
Coordinates	50°51′19″N 0°33′12″E
Completed	1850
Owner	Baston Lodge Freehold Ltd.[1]
Operator	Baston Lodge Freehold Ltd.
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Baston Lodge
Designated	14 March 1973
Height
Architectural	Italianate architecture
Technical details
Floor count	2 (+ attic & basement)
Design and construction
Architect	Decimus Burton
Main contractor	John Ward

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The building was designed by Decimus Burton (1800–1881) as a seaside villa for John Ward, a friend, and completed in 1850.^[3] The architecture is in the Italianate style, with coursed stone, chamfered quoins, and plain stone architraves and bands. It has low-pitched slate roofs with two main storeys, an attic, and a basement. There is a three-storey tower with a low-pitched pyramid-shaped roof.

Baston Lodge was the childhood home of the World War II codebreaker Alan Turing (1912–1954) and there is a blue plaque on the front of the building commemorating this.^[4][5] Alan Turing and his elder brother John Turing were wards of Colonel and Mrs Ward.^[6]

The building was Grade II listed in 1973.^[3] The blue plaque commemorating Alan Turing was unveiled on 23 June 2012, the centenary of Turing's birth.^[7]

The villa is located at 1 Upper Maze Hill and is close to St John's Church to the north. Immediately to the west is St Michael's Hospice and to the south is St Leonards Gardens. The building is now divided into apartments^[8] and the freehold of the building is owned by Baston Lodge Freehold Ltd.^[1]