Wood Lodge and Attached Steps, Walls and Piers

WOOD LODGE AND ATTACHED STEPS, WALLS AND PIERS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1037901
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Wood Lodge and Attached Steps, Walls and Piers
Statutory Address:
WOOD LODGE AND ATTACHED STEPS, WALLS AND PIERS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1037901
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Wood Lodge and Attached Steps, Walls and Piers
Statutory Address 1:
WOOD LODGE AND ATTACHED STEPS, WALLS AND PIERS

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WOOD LODGE AND ATTACHED STEPS, WALLS AND PIERS

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Blore with Swinscoe
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK 13401 50602

Details

BLORE WITH SWINSCOE C.P. ILAM PARK SK 15 SW 2/69 Wood Lodge and attached steps , walls and piers GV II Lodge, steps, walls and piers. Early C19. Coursed squared and dressed limestone with ashlar quoins and dressings; plain tile roofs and coped verges with ball finials; ashlar ridge stack. Tudor Gothic style; main building aligned north-south with canted north end and a projecting north porch also aligned north-south, both the east and west sides have a short projecting wing towards the northern end of the main building aligned north-east/south-west and north-west/south-east respectively; steps project from the east and west sides of the porch. One storey and attic; roughly 1:1:1 bays, central gabled porch with ovolo- moulded mullioned windows,the ground-floor window has 2 lights, the attic window 3 lights, both have straight cyma reversa moulded dripstones; the porch is flanked to the rear by the canted sides of the main building each with a 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window and cyma reversa moulded dripstone,set back wings to left and right each with a single-light window. Tudor arch openings in the east and west sides of the porch lead to a similar doorway in the north wall of the main building with nail studded door. To each side of the porch is a balustraded staircase with moulded handrail terminating in a gate pier with moulded cap which is paired with a similar pier incorporated into a short retaining wall, the left hand wall terminates in another gate pier to the north-east of the lodge which forms a pair with the gate pier approximately 10 yards north east of the lodge (q.v.) . Wood Lodge was formerly a lodge to Ilam Hal1 (q.v. Ilam C.P. ).

Listing NGR: SK1340150602

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
275065
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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