Close House Lodge and Gateway
CLOSE HOUSE LODGE AND GATEWAY, B 6528
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042802
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Close House Lodge and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- CLOSE HOUSE LODGE AND GATEWAY, B 6528
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042802
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Close House Lodge and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOSE HOUSE LODGE AND GATEWAY, B 6528
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLOSE HOUSE LODGE AND GATEWAY, B 6528
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heddon-on-the-Wall
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12046 66536
Details
B6528
NZ 16 NW
20/127
HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL
(South side)
Close House lodge
and gateway
II
Lodge, gatepiers, screen walls and railings. Early C19 and early C20. Ashlar and
iron. Lakeland slate roof.
Octagonal rusticated gatepiers, with widely-projecting cornices and ball
finials, flanked by short stretches of low walling with plain railings; beyond
these are serpentine walls c. 6 ft. high with rounded coping, and pilasters.
Similar but lower walls continue along the road for c. 40 yards in each direction
and end in square corniced piers.
Wall immediately to left of gateway is broken by the end wall of the later lodge.
Single storey, 3 x 1 bays. Raised alternating quoins. Central stone porch,
with pilasters, cornice and blocking course, flanked by canted bay windows with
stone pent roofs. Twin gables with large obliquely-set modillions and moulded
coping. Corniced ridge stack. On left return (i.e. breaking into serpentine
wall to left of gateway) a C20 window in raised alternating-block surround
under similar gable.
Listing NGR: NZ1204666536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238612
- 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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