Eynsham Hall, North Lodge And Attached Gates, Gatepiers And Wall Approximately 650 Metres North North West

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

EYNSHAM SP31SE 3/105 Eynsham Hall, North Lodge and 03/09/81 attached gates, gatepiers and wall approx. 650m. NNW

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Lodge, now house. Datestone 1845, by Sir Charles Barry; later alterations.

Squared and coursed limestone, with ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof; brick lateral and ridge stacks. L-plan. Italianate style. Two-storey gable end of left wing has storey band and one 2-light above 2 one-light windows with semi-circular arched heads. One-storey-and-attic range to right has two 2-light stone-mullioned windows: mullioned windows and entry to rear. Bracketed eaves. Subsidiary features: limestone ashlar gatepiers and larger rusticated main-gate piers with bracketed eaves and ball finial flank wrought-iron pedestrian gates and double carriage gates (possibly c.1900): scrolls to sides are ramped to low flanking walls, each approximately 20 metres long and finished by moulded ashlar piers. The lodge and gates were built at the north entrance to Eynsham Hall (q.v.) when it was remodelled by Barry for the 5th Earl of Macclesfield.

(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.602).

Listing NGR: SP3939212903

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0165 IOE Records taken by Sean Bergin; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Sean Bergin. Source: Historic England Archive

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