Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park

LODGES AND ARCHED GATEWAY TO DYRHAM PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1103565
Date first listed:
20-May-1949
List Entry Name:
Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park
Statutory Address:
LODGES AND ARCHED GATEWAY TO DYRHAM PARK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1103565
Date first listed:
20-May-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Lodges and Arched Gateway to Dyrham Park
Statutory Address 1:
LODGES AND ARCHED GATEWAY TO DYRHAM PARK

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
LODGES AND ARCHED GATEWAY TO DYRHAM PARK

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:
South Mimms and Ridge
National Grid Reference:
TQ 23242 98924

Details

TQ 29 NW POTTERS BAR DYRHAM PARK Barnet

8/205 Lodges and Arched 20.5.49 Gateway to Dyrham Park (Formerly listed as Lodges and II* arched gateways to above under General)

Entrance arch and 2 lodges. c.1790-1800. Stuccoed brick with stone dressings. Slate roofs to lodges. Monumental Neo-classical arch linked to flanking square lodges. Arch has 2 attached Tuscan columns with entablature. On top rests a sarcophagus-like block decorated with festoons and a central roundel all surmounted by an urn. Paterae in spandrels of arch. Half height link walls pierced by round headed entrances. Each lodge has architraves to windows on all sides with scrolled bracketed pediments: some damaged and all blocked. Continuous stringcourse from impost level of central arch to top of link walls to cornice level of window architraves. Cornice below eaves level on lodges. Pyramidal roofs with central chimneys. Iron gates in store. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ2324298924

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Legacy System number:
164258
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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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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