WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER

WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER, B 1281

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120968
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER
Statutory Address:: WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER, B 1281

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120968
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER, B 1281

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WEST LODGE, GATE PIERS AND GATE TOWER, B 1281

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Castle Eden
National Grid Reference:: NZ 41914 38154

Details

NZ 4038-4138 CASTLE EDEN B 1281 (North side, off)

9/1 West Lodge, gate piers 8/12/67 and gate tower (formerly listed as West Lodge at Parklands) II

Former gate lodge to Castle Eden Estate, with gate piers and tower to left; c.1800 by William Atkinson. Limestone ashlar; lodge roof not visible.

Lodge: asymmetrical with 2-storey, one-bay tower enclosed to left and rear by one-storey L-plan wing. Gothick with chamfered plinth, hoodmoulds and embattled parapets. Tower section has 2-light pointed-arched window with Gothick glazing bars and similar single-light window above; semi-octagonal gate pier respond to left; right return with similar windows and tall stepped octagonal stack to rear. Lower wing has former doorway to left with raised shield above; lancets to rear.

Octagonal piers, about 2.5 metres high, have concave-sided capitals and low pyramidal caps; gates missing. 4.5-metre high, square gate tower at far left has embattled parapets, gate pier respond on right return and blocked lancet to rear.

C20 additions to left of lodge and C20 embattled wall of concrete, running west from gate tower, not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4191438154

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Legacy System number:: 109413
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.