NORTH LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATES TO WESTONBIRT SCHOOL WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND RAILINGS BETWEEN

1 AND 2, A433

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1235822
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: NORTH LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATES TO WESTONBIRT SCHOOL WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND RAILINGS BETWEEN
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 2, A433

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1235822
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: NORTH LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATES TO WESTONBIRT SCHOOL WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND RAILINGS BETWEEN
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 2, A433
Statutory Address 2:: NORTH LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATES TO WESTONBIRT SCHOOL WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND RAILINGS BETWEEN, A433

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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:: 1 AND 2, A433
Statutory Address:: NORTH LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATES TO WESTONBIRT SCHOOL WITH FLANKING QUADRANT WALLS AND RAILINGS BETWEEN, A433

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Westonbirt with Lasborough
National Grid Reference:: ST8590090092

Details

WESTONBIRT WITH A433 ST 89 SE LASBOROUGH (south side) 7/176 North Lodges (Nos 1 and 2) and Entrance Gates to Westonbirt School with flanking quadrant walls and 29.8.73 railings between II

Pair of quadrant screen walls, lodges and linking gates, with railings within semi-circular grassed area set back from road. Dated 1853 on east side of No 1, probably by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Stayner Holford. Central elaborate cast iron carriage gates between square stone piers with moulded cornices and ornamental vases, joined to pedestrian gates on each side set in ashlar arches with pierced balustrade over. Flanking are 2 virtually identical lodges in Elizabethan style with similar stylistic details to Westonbirt House (q.v.). Adjoining gates are small square 2-storey towers with rusticated angle pilasters, decorative plat band over, ground floor with round headed single light to front, ornamental date or initial plaque on 3 sides on upper storey, cornice with pierced parapet and ball finials, small ogee domes. Open arcaded base on inside which extends back for further 2 bays alongside single storey section with Flemish gable to front and back, canted oriel window to front and stepped 3-light stone mullion and transom with square hoodmould to rear. Set back round-headed single light to outside with raised semi-circular parapet and small piece of linking wall then single small rectangular light with small room behind wall. Quadrant walls in ashlar in 3 bays with square piers with low domed caps, with corner to inside and on main wall along roadside set with 2 taller and rusticated piers with strapwork gable between and spiked ball finial on inner pier of main wall pair. Railings describe complementary quadrants and are formed by twisted iron posts with spiked ball finials and decorative base, with spiked chain hung between.

Listing NGR: ST8590090092

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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.