West Lodge, Walls and Gate Piers

WEST LODGE, WALLS AND GATE PIERS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042362
Date first listed:
21-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
West Lodge, Walls and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
WEST LODGE, WALLS AND GATE PIERS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042362
Date first listed:
21-Sept-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
West Lodge, Walls and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
WEST LODGE, WALLS AND GATE PIERS

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WEST LODGE, WALLS AND GATE PIERS

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lilburn
National Grid Reference:
NU 01799 23913

Details

NU 02 SW LILBURN LILBURN TOWER

7/92 West Lodge, walls and gate piers (Previously listed 21.9.51 as Lilburn Tower West Lodge) 11

Lodge and gateway. 1830-40 by John Dobson. Ashlar with stone roof. L-shaped lodge. One storey with attic. Neo-Tudor. One-bay gabled front has canted mullion-and- transom bay window with diamond-paned casements and parapet with roll-moulded coping. Similar coping to solid porch in angle of L. Windows on returns and to rear have hoodmoulds which continue as dripstone. Hoodmoulds and diamond panes also to windows in gables. Big, stone ridge stack with 2 tall, diagonally-set corniced chimneys.

Left of lodge, plain walling ending in 2 square piers with concave caps. Gateway to right of lodge: square corniced piers with heavy, concave tops and lead eagles. Flanking arcades of 5 pointed arches with wrought iron grilles between, all on chamfered base and capped by roll-moulded coping. Right of this, a plain wall ends in 2 square piers with concave caps.

Listing NGR: NU0179923913

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
237556
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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