Beeston Lodge and Attached Boundary Walls
BEESTON LODGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, WOLLATON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270384
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Beeston Lodge and Attached Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BEESTON LODGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, WOLLATON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270384
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Beeston Lodge and Attached Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEESTON LODGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, WOLLATON PARK
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:
- BEESTON LODGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, WOLLATON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53518 38588
Details
NOTTINGHAM
646-1/6/747 WOLLATON PARK
12-JUL-72 WOLLATON PARK
(Southeast side)
BEESTON LODGE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WA
LLS
(Formerly listed as:
DERBY ROAD
WOLLATON PARK
BEESTON LODGE, GATEWAY TO WOLLATON PARK)
GV II
Lodge to Country House, and attached walls. 1832, designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville for the 6th Lord Middleton. Defensive fireproof construction. Coursed Gritstone ashlar, with fine punched face with draughted margins. Flat roofs finished in asphalt. Heavy Gothick style with "martello-type" round outer towers, with battlements and large batter to base of walls. Square central gatehouse connected to the towers at second floor level. 3 storeys, the third within the central gatehouse.
Gatehouse has a central Tudor arched carriage entrance with ashlar oriel window above, 5 lights, the soffit of which disguises two square openings into the third floor for defensive purposes (possibly firing a gun through). Double timber gates to carriage arch, each harr-hung and set in reveal, reinforced with cast-iron outer frame and 12 panels inset with strapwork design. All cast-iron rails and stiles bolted to the frame. Modern steel deer fencing fixed to outer reveal. Moulded string course to central gatehouse to both Derby Road and Park elevations.
Rear elevation has 4 slit windows on the second floor. Parapet with 4 corner pinnacles finished with huge cast-iron octagonal chimney pots. Deep set narrow slit windows throughout, cast-iron frames, replacement C20 glazing, one surviving diamond-paned leaded-light window to rear elevation. At ground floor level within the arched entrance; opposing Tudor style plank and batten doors with applied fillets, studded and reinforced in iron. Soffit to carriage entrance; cast-iron decorative beams supporting ashlar stone slab floor. Beyond lodge on each side ashlar wall bordering Derby Road, with gabled stone coping. Each side approximately 3m high and 25m long.
INTERIOR; the construction is fireproof and defensive throughout. Floors; cast-iron decorative beams support stone slab floors. Walls, fine tooled ashlar, no plaster. Metal-plated heavy-duty doors onto central roof, each door riveted and bolted, one door removed from its hinges and lying flat. Internal flues incorporated into staircase designs. Enclosed stone winder stair to all levels. Internal doors of timber, metal plated, with integral locking bolts, harr-hung on pivoting hinges for added security, designed to close flush into recessed rebates within ashlar. 2nd floor; cast-iron fireplaces with small hob-grates, fireplaces to other floors have Tudor-arched stone surrounds. 4 anchor points on main roof, of unknown function, possibly to support a cannon (cf reference). The structure is a rare type that is virtually unaltered.
This lodge was built following the Nottingham Reform riots in October 1831, and it has important historical links with the history of Wollaton Hall and these riots.
References; Middleton Collection Hallward Library (Mi LM 36/1); "1832 Beeston New lodge built"...two circular lodges....of the martello kind.. with narrow slip windows to fire thro', similar to old Castles....battlements built to hide a cannon on the top", Smith, P. "Comfort and Security" (The Regency Great House, ed. Malcolm Airs, pub. OUP 1998), Smith, P. "Wollaton Hall: an Architectural and Historical Assessment" for Nottingham City Council August 2001 (pages 10,12), "A Statement of Occurences which took place at and near Nottingham on the 9th 10th and 11th of October, 1831" (Hallward Library MiF 12/18), The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979 - : 280.
Listing NGR: SK5351838588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 280
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,
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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