TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL

TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL, READING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214826
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL, READING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214826
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL, READING 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:: TWO ENTRANCE LODGES, GATES, AND FLANKING WALLS APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF PURLEY HALL, READING ROAD

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Purley on Thames
National Grid Reference:: SU 64729 76080

Details

SU 67 NW PURLEY READING ROAD (south side)

2/49 2 Entrance Lodges, Gates, And Flanking Walls Approx- imately 300 Metres To North- east Of Purley Hall

II

2 entrance lodges, gates and flanking walls. C18 with C20 additions to rear. Lodges: red brick with banded flint rustication. Square plan. One storey. Brick string and battlemented parapets. Each lodge has one ciruclar window to north with flint keystones and leaded lights, and arched boarded door on inner face. 2 brick piers between with two C19 iron gates. Flanking walls: flint with brick dressings. 2 walls, approximately 30 metres long and of varying height, curving forward and extending along road. 2 tall square b rick end piers and lower brick piers at intervals, with banded flint rustication and flint obelisk finials. There was formerly an archway between the 2 lodges. V.C.H. (Berks), Vol.3, pp.417-418; B.O.E, Berkshire, p.195; Country Life, CXLVii, pp.310-313 and pp. 566-569.

Listing NGR: SU6472976080

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Legacy System number:: 399602
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 417-418
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 195
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1947), 310-313
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1947), 366-369
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,

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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.