LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1107581
Date first listed: 29-May-1986
Statutory Address: LODGE AND GATEPIERS TO WEST ENTRANCE TO TAPELEY PARK
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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
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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.
End of official listing