LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL

LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL, BRIXHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195174
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL, BRIXHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195174
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL, BRIXHAM 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:: LODGES, GATES, FLANKING WALLS AND RAILINGS AT NORTH ENTRANCE TO GRAMERCY HALL SCHOOL, BRIXHAM ROAD

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

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 90263 55622

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers 1946-1/6/46 (South side) 10/01/75 Lodges, gates, flanking walls & railings at N entrance to Gramercy Hall School (Formerly Listed as: BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers Lodges and railings on road entrance to Lupton House)

GV II

Lodges, gates, walls, and railings. c1843. By George Wightwick; doubled in depth 1983-5 by Keith Proctor. Solid-walled, rendered lodges. Roofs not visible from road; they appear to be flat. Panelled, tapered chimneypot, standing on a low pedestal, on front and back pediment of each lodge. 1 storey. Fronts designed as Doric porticos with paired pilasters at each end supporting an entablature with triangular pediment. Centre window, tapering towards the top, with eared architrave, 6-paned sashes. Side-walls facing entrance have 3 pilasters in centre and 2 at each end; 2 tapered doorway with eared architraves and 6-paned half-glazed doors each side. Top entablature with blocking course. Rear walls designed to match the fronts. Subsidiary features: in front of the lodges a pair of iron gates with spearhead uprights hanging from square openwork iron piers with rounded tops; decorated with flowers, foliage and pine-cones. Railings to match the gates, extending outwards to the road in ogee curves. At each end a panelled pier with moulded cap. Beyond that an ogee-shaped stretch of limestone ashlar walling ending in a square pier. Wall to right has flat stone coping and low pyramidal cap to pier; these are missing on left-hand side. (The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition): 1989-: 833).

Listing NGR: SX9026355622

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Legacy System number:: 383552
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 833
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

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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.