Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway

Tower Lodge, Mead Lane, Basildon

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210334
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway
Statutory Address:: Tower Lodge, Mead Lane, Basildon

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210334
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway
Statutory Address 1:: Tower Lodge, Mead Lane, Basildon

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Tower Lodge, Mead Lane, Basildon

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Basildon
National Grid Reference:: SU 61439 77967

Details

SU 67 NW 2/21

BASILDON MEAD LANE (west side) Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway

II

Entrance Lodge and gateway. Mid to late C18 with C20 addition to rear. Stuccoed brick with banded flint rustication and string course. Dentil brick cornice with triangular pediment over central projection to east, and old tile roof. Gothick style. Two storeys.

East front: central first floor circular window with rusticated keystones, two ground floor diamond leaded arched windows with continuous hoodmould flanking central arched door with ogee - arched glazed panel. Small first floor oval window to north. Entrance to rear. Octagonal tower set back to right of two stages with battlemented brick parapet. Arched traceried windows on alternating faces. Blank arched panels, blank circular panels with quatrefoils on each face above first floor.

Four-centred brick archway to north with imposts and arched reveals String and stone coped parapet above. Coped brick retaining wall to north curving down to square end pier.

Listing NGR: SU6143977967

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 394962
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.