WORCESTER LODGE TO BADMINTON PARK, WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND TERMINAL PAVILIONS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1153252
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sep-1954
- Statutory Address:
- WORCESTER LODGE TO BADMINTON PARK, WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND TERMINAL PAVILIONS, A433
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- WORCESTER LODGE TO BADMINTON PARK, WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND TERMINAL PAVILIONS, A433
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Didmarton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81022 87128
Details
DIDMARTON A433
ST 8187 and
ST 88 NW (south side)
14/57 and 9/57 Worcester Lodge to Badminton Park,
with flanking quadrant walls and
terminal pavilions
6.9.54
I
Entrance lodge to Badminton Park incorporating an upper dining
room. 1746, by William Kent. Ashlar on vermiculated rusticated
base, lead roofs with moulded stone dentil cornice. Single main
block of 4 storeys with large central groin vaulted archway and
flanking small single-storey square wings with pyramid roofs.
Ashlar plinth and plat bands to rusticated lower 2 storeys, with
dropped keystones to flanking round-headed niches with blind recess
over. Central pedimented section slightly projecting has large
round-headed window running through 2 upper storeys with stone
balustraded balcony over round-headed arch with triple keystone and
pair of wrought iron gates to north side only. Beaufort arms in
pediment. Blind niche and recess immediately flanking main window
and 15-pane sash to each set-back side with blind attic recess.
Almost identical facade to south side. East and west sides have
central arched recess with full-length 18-pane window leading on to
similar smaller balcony, and repeating motif of flanking niche and
recess. Central saucer dome on near-octagonal drum with small
stone stack to each flank and hipped roof to each side. Inner
flanks of archway have large arched recesses each with 6-panel door
and blind doorway. East side has vestibule with steep wooden stair
with central partition dividing different height treads for each
foot. West side has cantilevered moulded stone stair with wrought
iron balustrade leading to upper room with very fine plastered
ceiling by Kent depicting the flowers and fruit of the 4 seasons,
and fluted pilasters flanking the large windows. Overmantel
thought to have been imported, but gilt framed convex mirror above
designed by Kent with radiating sunburst pattern. Flanking outside
wings have ball finials to each corner of pyramid roof base, and
are in vermiculated rustication with large plain triple keystones
to round-headed windows to north and south. Quadrant walls to each
side divided into 10 bays marked on inner face by plain piers with
shallow pyramidal caps, with central feature of partially blind
archway with raised pediment. Octagonal end pavilions in ashlar
with vermiculated plinth and plat band with shallow slate roof and
ball finial, with arched recess to alternate faces blind except for
radial glazed fanlight, and access from rear. Once surrounded by
trees, it now stands alone at the end of the Three Mile Ride from
Badminton House on the edge of the main road to Tetbury.
(David Verey, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire - the
Cotswolds, 1979; Tim Mowl, Trumpet at a Distant Gate, 1985)
Listing NGR: ST8102287128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, Earnshaw, B, Trumpet at a Distant Gate The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House, (1985)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing