Dowdeswell Lodge
DOWDESWELL LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089355
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dowdeswell Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- DOWDESWELL LODGE
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- Date:
- 2002-05-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/06951/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089355
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dowdeswell Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWDESWELL LODGE
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:
- DOWDESWELL LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dowdeswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9977319871
Details
DOWDESWELL -
SO 91 NE
4/15 Dowdeswell Lodge
GV II
Former west lodge to Dowdeswell Court (q.v.). Built mid-late C19
for the Rogers family. Ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular main body
with central 3-bays projecting at front and back. C20 extension in
same style extending back rear left, the whole forming a 'u'-shaped
plan. Italianate single storey, 1:2:1-windowed tetrastyle temple
front with wings set back slightly either side. Triangular
pediment with antefixae and acroterion over central 3 bays.
Central C20 door with glazing bars up 3 steps with Rogers family
shield in projecting stone canopy above, round-headed 4-pane sashes
within moulded architraves, with projecting sills; similar windows
to wings either side. Moulded hood over with Rogers family
heraldic shield flanked by flowers and fruit above. Doorways
flanked by engaged fluted Corinthian columns, pilasters also with
Corinthian capitals at corners, rusticated quoins at corners of
main body. Stone balustrade at level of frieze either side of
projecting porch. Formerly main entrance to Dowdeswell Court.
(Mowl and Earnshaw, Trumpet at Distant Gate p149, 1985.)
Listing NGR: SO9977319871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 129114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, Earnshaw, B, Trumpet at a Distant Gate The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House, (1985), 149
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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