Lodge and Gateway to Benter House
LODGE AND GATEWAY TO BENTER HOUSE, FOSSE WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058634
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge and Gateway to Benter House
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE AND GATEWAY TO BENTER HOUSE, FOSSE WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058634
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge and Gateway to Benter House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE AND GATEWAY TO BENTER HOUSE, FOSSE WAY
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:
- LODGE AND GATEWAY TO BENTER HOUSE, FOSSE WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratton on the Fosse
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65078 49156
Details
STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE CP FOSSE WAY (West side) ST65NE BENTER 09/190 Lodge and gateway to Benter House
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GV II
Lodge and gateway. Early C19. Lodge of coursed and squared rubble, hipped slate roof, paired polygonal ashlar stacks at apex. Square on plan. Classical and Tudor style. Single storey, 2 bays, 2-light stone-mullioned windows with stopped labels, mostly leaded lights. To centre of driveway frontage a door opening, half-glazed C20 door; stone portico, flat entablature, triglyph frieze with metopes on 2 Roman-Doric columns, pilasters to wall. Pair of rusticated ashlar gate piers, moulded caps with key-patterned bands, couchant C20 heraldic lion on each; rubble quadrant walls with further lesser rusticated ashlar pier to each side, hipped and moulded caps. Further attached sections of wall are not included.
Listing NGR: ST6507849156
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268003
- 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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