West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle

WEST LODGE AND GATEWAY TO CHILLINGHAM CASTLE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042394
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle
Statutory Address:
WEST LODGE AND GATEWAY TO CHILLINGHAM CASTLE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042394
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle
Statutory Address 1:
WEST LODGE AND GATEWAY TO CHILLINGHAM CASTLE

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

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:
WEST LODGE AND GATEWAY TO CHILLINGHAM CASTLE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Chillingham
National Grid Reference:
NU 05627 25509

Details

NU 02 NE CHILLINGHAM CHILLINGHAM

5/61 West Lodge and Gateway to Chillingham Castle

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Lodge and gateway. Dated 1835 on lodge. By Edward Blore for the Earl of Tankerville. Dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Tudor and Jacobean styles.

Lodge: L-shaped, 1½ storeys, 2 bays. Gabled projecting left bay has stone-roofed canted bay window on ground floor, 2-light window under hoodmould above. Casement windows with double-chamfered surrounds. Blank right bay with front lean-to. Gabled coping, kneelers and finials to roof. Offcentre transverse stack with 2 diagonal shafts. Small gabled porch on left return.

Wide curved wall, stepped up on right to lodge. Lower left section with 2 end and two central square piers with roll moulded ogee caps and similar finials. Central piers have cast iron gates with obelisk finials and flanking, 2-stage square towers on plinths of wall height. Each has 2 x 2 arcaded lower stage with roll- moulded ogee roof dying into diagonally-set upper stage with similar top and finial.

Listing NGR: NU0562725509

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
237527
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 31 Northumberland,

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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.

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