Obelisk Lodge and Attached Screen Walls, at SE 406 18
OBELISK LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, AT SE 406 18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1253564
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk Lodge and Attached Screen Walls, at SE 406 18
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, AT SE 406 18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1253564
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk Lodge and Attached Screen Walls, at SE 406 18
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, AT SE 406 18
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK LODGE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, AT SE 406 18
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 40670 18578
Details
HUNTWICK WITH FOULBY NOSTELL PARK SE 41 NW AND NOSTELL 5/38 Obelisk Lodge and 25.3.1968 attached screen walls, at SE 406 18. (Formerly listed as Obelisk Lodge of Nostell Priory) - II*
Lodge with attached screen walls on drive to Nostell Park crossing Featherstone Moor from Pontefract. 1776, by Robert Adam. Sandstone ashlar. A prominent and distinctive structure in the form of a narrow pyramid pierced by a round-headed archway, which is framed by a massive Tuscan doorcase with pedimented entablature; a fluted frieze and moulded cornice is carried round from the pediment, and there is a blind oeil-de-boeuf above it; and a moulded impost band carried through the archway. Accommodation is provided in each side of the lower part of the pyramid, lit by narrow single light windows at ground floor of the front and 1st floor of the sides, and the chimney flues incorporated in the pyramid. (Apex of pyramid missing at time of survey, 1986). A short screen wall attached at each side terminates in a wide square pier. Wrought-iron double gates to the outer (northern) entrance, of straight-railing design but with lower panels of intersecting segments, small finials and pendants between the railings, and small decorative cresting.
Listing NGR: SE4067018578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436803
- 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.
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