Gateway to North-west of Chester Lodge
GATEWAY TO NORTH-WEST OF CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120985
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway to North-west of Chester Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY TO NORTH-WEST OF CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120985
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway to North-west of Chester Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY TO NORTH-WEST OF CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
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:
- GATEWAY TO NORTH-WEST OF CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28484 52315
Details
BOURNMOOR CHESTER ROAD NZ 25 SE 285523 (North side, off) 4/2 Gateway to north- west of Chester Lodge GV II
Arched gateway, walls, end piers and gates. 1815 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham. Walls extended in mid C19. Ashlar sandstone. Classical style.
Tall imposing gateway: semicircular arch, with archivolt and corniced imposts, framed by Tuscan pilasters; entablature has frieze with raised oblong panel in moulded surround flanked by carved stone rams' heads (Lambton insignia); blocking course breaks forward at ends. Flanking lower piers each with raised fielded panel, cornice and enriched S-scroll bracket. Pair of tall iron gates have close-set bars and dogbars with spike finials; each leaf has narrow margin of small cross-braced panels.
1.75-metre high convex quadrant walls, flanking gateway, have plinths and chamfered copings. Extension walls with flat coping run to square-plan end piers with low pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: NZ2848452315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109348
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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