CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND WALL TO SOUTH

CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH, ROWNHAM HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129037
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND WALL TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH, ROWNHAM HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129037
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND WALL TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH, ROWNHAM HILL
Statutory Address 2:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND WALL TO SOUTH, ABBOTS LEIGH ROAD

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:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND SECTION OF ESTATE WALL ADJOINING AND TO THE SOUTH, ROWNHAM HILL
Statutory Address:: CLIFTON LODGE, ARCHWAY, FLANKING WALLS AND WALL TO SOUTH, ABBOTS LEIGH ROAD

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

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Long Ashton
National Grid Reference:: ST 55803 72692

Details

ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON ROWNHAM HILL

5/155 Clifton Lodge Archway flanking Walls and Section of Estate Wall adjoining and to the south - II

Archway, lodge, flanking walls and wall with railings to south of lodges. Circa 1885-86. Coursed, squared rubble with freestone dressings; roofs concealed behind embattled parapets; rubble and freestone stacks. Asymmetrical, in a Tudor Gothic style. In the centre is a 4-centred archway; ribbed vault with carved bosses; above is a 3-light oriel with cusped tracery and flanking niches with statues of knights; stepped and embattled parapet with Smyth arms. To each side of the arch is a canted, 3 storey tower with an embattled parapet corbelled out on cusped arcaded plate; square windows in chamfered surrounds on ground floor, 4-centre headed windows above; moulded string with gargoyles. To the south of the left section is a projecting square bay and a stair turret; beyond is a 2 storey, single bay wing. To the north of the right section is a 5-stage polygonal tower with single cusped ogee lights; 2 storey, single bay wing beyond. Flanking each lodge is a rubble quadrant wall approximately 5-6 yards long and terminating in a square, embattled pier. To the south a section of wall extends for approximately 50 yards: rubble with freestone dressings and coping; the wall is stepped down at intervals where there are square piers; decorative cast-iron railings. A lodge to the Ashton Court (q.v.) estate.

Listing NGR: ST5580372692

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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.