LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107581
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK
Statutory Address:: LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1107581
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK
Statutory Address 1:: LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Westleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 46840 29052

Details

WESTLEIGH TAPELEY PARK SS 42 NE 3/124 Lodge and gatepiers to west entrance to Tapeley Park GV II Lodge, gatepiers, gates and flanking walls. Circa 1840. Lodge stuccoed stone rubble except for plinth of rusticated ashlar. Flat pyramid roof to tower of lodge with projecting eaves, flat roof of single storey wing not visible. Gatepiers and flank walls of ashlar with vermiculated rustication to the piers. Gates of wrought iron. Italianate style lodge consists of square tower of 2 stages with single storey wing set back slightly and extending from left side of tower with entrance at left end. Gatepiers of square section to left of lodge with flank walls to each side, that to right passing in front of the single storey wing of the lodge and abutting the front left- hand corner of the tower. Italianate style lodge. Lodge: tower of 2 stages, the banded string between the stages carried round as cornice to single storey wing. Large straight headed 3-light windows to each facet of upper stage of tower excluding rear, with blind round arches to the lights, paterae in the spandrels and 8-paned sash with margin bars, to each light. Single 12-paned sashes to centre front of lower stage of tower and single storey wing. Projecting rectangular porch at left end of single-storey wing with Greek keymotif to entablature, incised pilasters and 4-panelled door. Gatepiers have Greek key motif to the impost bands with swags above the moulded caps surmounted by female sphinxes. Flank walls have stone balustrading. Wrought iron gates have fleur-de-lys style finials to the shafts and small roundels to the toprails which are swept up to the pier ends.

Listing NGR: SS4684029052

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 98848
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.