NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS

NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS, 1 AND 2, NORWICH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1033239
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS
Statutory Address:: NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS, 1 AND 2, NORWICH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1033239
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS
Statutory Address 1:: NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS, 1 AND 2, NORWICH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NEEDHAM LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS PAVILIONS, 1 AND 2, NORWICH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Coddenham
National Grid Reference:: TM 11027 54171

Details

CODDENHAM NORWICH ROAD TM 15 SW 7/38 Nos. 1 and 2, Needham - Lodge, and attached screen walls and pavilions - II

Pair of gatelodges at mouth of west entrance drive to Shrubland Park. Circa 1870, for Sir W.F. Middleton, Bart. In the Italianate manner. A central carriage gateway is surmounted by an Italianate tower and flanked by a pair of single-storey lodges. Gault brick with heavily rusticated quoins. Deeply oversailing Roman pantiled roofs with heavy widely-spaced modillions. Rear chimneys of gault brick. Each lodge has a small-pane sash window with broad limestone frame and cornice. The central archway has a limestone arch with giant voussoirs: the keystone is delicately carved with the Middleton coat of arms. A pair of wrought iron gates with scrolled ornament at the head of each. Over the gateway is a gabled roof; and set back is the square tower, with twin recessed open arches on columns at each face; shallow pryamid roof. Semi-elliptical screen walls of gault brick about 2.5m high are attached to either flank; limestone copings and piers behind, expressed by block quoins. Each screen is terminated by a solid square pavilion about 3.5m high: gault brick with block quoins; a coved niche is lined with ashlar stonework; pyramidal Roman pantiled roof with a limestone eaves cornice and a ball finial.

Listing NGR: TM1102754171

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Legacy System number:: 279286
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.