Gates, Gatepiers and Walls at Milton Lodge
GATES, GATEPIERS AND WALLS AT MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113974
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gates, Gatepiers and Walls at Milton Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- GATES, GATEPIERS AND WALLS AT MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113974
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gates, Gatepiers and Walls at Milton Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES, GATEPIERS AND WALLS AT MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)
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:
- GATES, GATEPIERS AND WALLS AT MILTON LODGE, LONDON ROAD (B528)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Bryan
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96624 30548
Details
SP 9630-9730 MILTON BRYAN LONDON ROAD (B528) 12/61 - Gates, gatepiers and walls at Milton Lodge GV II Entrance gateway to Battlesden House (now demolished). Probably part of work carried out 1860-1868 by G H Stokes (advised by Sir Joseph Paxton) for Sir Edward Page-Turner. Red brick with ashlar dressings, the gates of cast iron. Consists of central double gates flanked by single gates, these supported by 4 piers, and linked to outer piers on road edge by symmetrical lengths of curving wall. The 6 piers each stand approximately 2.5 metres high, the walls approximately half of this height. Each stretch of wall approximately 10 metres long. Piers are rusticated with ashlar blocks and have heavily moulded cornices. Those adjoining walls shave heavily moulded ashlar consoles at junction. Walling is stone-coped, and brickwork arranged in an ornamental pierced design simulating balusters. The ironwork gates have ornamental cresting, that to central gates including initials E.P.T. D Bassett, "G H Stokes at Battlesden and Belle Vue". Architectural History, vol 26, 1983, pp 92-5. Beds Record Office: T18/36, lease of 1866.
Listing NGR: SP9662430548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38163
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural History in Architectural History, Vol. 26, (1983), 92-95
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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