GATE PIERS, GATES AND ENTRANCE SCREEN AT LOWER LODGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140625
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS, GATES AND ENTRANCE SCREEN AT LOWER LODGE
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS, GATES AND ENTRANCE SCREEN AT LOWER LODGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140625
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS, GATES AND ENTRANCE SCREEN AT LOWER LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS, GATES AND ENTRANCE SCREEN AT LOWER LODGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: GATE PIERS, GATES AND ENTRANCE SCREEN AT LOWER LODGE

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maker-with-Rame
National Grid Reference:: SX4538753330

Details

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK

7/215 Gate Piers, Gates and Entrance screen at Lower Lodge 23.1.68 GV II

Gate piers, gates and railings. Late C17/early C18 and C20. Granite; cast and wrought iron. Long stretch of railings on a dwarf wall forming a screen at the entrance to Mount Edgcumbe Park. Pier at each end of railings, gates to right and terminal pier to right: of gates with small foot gate to end right. The dwarf wall carries spear head railings; to left a large rusticated granite pier of square plan on moulded plinth with cornice, cap and necking surmounted by ball finial. To the left a buttress with large moulded granite volute. Similar pier to right of carriage gates, pier to left of gates a C20 copy in brown granite without buttress. Double iron carriage gates; small foot gate adjoins Lower Lodge (q.v.). All the ironwork appears to be of C20. The entrance to Mount Edgcumbe Park from Plymouth via the Cremyll ferry. Piers in similar style to the Triumphal Arch at Higher Lodge (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SX4538753330

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

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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.