East And West Lodges At Entrance To Tunstall Court And Attached Screen Walls / Wooler Road

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

HARTLEPOOL GRANGE ROAD NZ 43 SE (north side) 3/75 East and West Lodges, at entrance to Tunstall Court and attached screen walls

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Pair of lodges either side of driveway; c.1890, possibly by T. Lewis Banks (London). Brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs having pierced crestings to clay ridge tiles, terracotta urn finials and ridge stacks. Single storey, with plinths and moulded eaves cornices. Principal fronts face the driveway; each has 5-panelled door under fanlight, set behind projecting ashlar 2-bay arcaded porch under triangular pedimented gable; round arches spring from quasi-Ionic centre pier and simple square angle piers. Balustrade to front and south return.

Circular window with glazing bars in tympanum of pediment. Early/mid C20 casement window in original opening to south of porch. South sides (facing Grange Road) each have 5-light bow windows with -domed roof. North sides each have canted bay with blank front and early/mid C20 casements in sides, under projecting bowed veranda with turned timber baluster columns, bracketed at eaves, and -domed roof. Attached to south pier of each porch is a gatepier : panelled column with moulded pedestal and capital supporting ornate wrought iron globe lantern. Mid C20 metal gates are not of interest.

Attached contemporary brick screen walls facing Grange Road. Late C20 rear extensions are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4920432573

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1771 IOE Records taken by Thomas Sample; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Thomas Sample. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project