Cemetery Lodge

CEMETERY LODGE, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076622
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Lodge
Statutory Address:
CEMETERY LODGE, LONDON ROAD
The Italianate Lodge at London Road Cemetery, Coventry built 1845 - 1847. Seen August 2025.
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Date:
2001-04-27
Reference:
IOE01/03413/04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1076622
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
Cemetery Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
CEMETERY LODGE, LONDON ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CEMETERY LODGE, LONDON ROAD

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

District:
Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP3409678338

Details

5105

SP 37 W 17/106

LONDON ROAD

Cemetery Lodge

II

GV

Circa 1847, attributed to (Sir) Joseph Paxton, who laid out the Cemetery. Mid C19 Italianate. Red sandstone, hipped Welsh slated roof. Two storeys, plinth, first floor band, frieze, cornice. Vermiculated quoins. Ground floor window cornices on brackets; round headed first floor windows with plain voussoirs and imposts. Arched porch with impost band, keystone, cornice band, blocking course. Angle on north-west has square tower with hipped roof, cut bracketed cornice, three arched narrow windows to each side at second floor level.

All the listed buildings in the Cemetery form a group.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 August 2019.

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

Legacy System number:
218517
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 43 West Midlands,

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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