Buckingham Lodges, West Lodge
BUCKINGHAM LODGES, WEST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280819
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Buckingham Lodges, West Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BUCKINGHAM LODGES, WEST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280819
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Buckingham Lodges, West Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUCKINGHAM LODGES, WEST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE
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:
- BUCKINGHAM LODGES, WEST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69146 34184
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6934 STOWE AVENUE 879-1/5/145 (West side) 03/04/73 Buckingham Lodges; West Lodge (Formerly Listed as: STOWE AVENUE Stowe Lodge West and Stowe Lodge East)
GV II
Lodge. Built before 1809. Coursed squared limestone with limestone ashlar and Coade stone dressings, and sloping copper roof concealed by balustrades. 2-unit plan. 1-storey, 2-window range. Entrance side to south has central, 6-panel door with flat-arched head and straight stone hood on curved stone brackets. 12-pane sash windows either side, with stone sills and flat-arched heads. Rectangular recesses ornamental panels above door and windows, the former of Coade stone with scallop shell and stylized foliage, those over windows of cast lead, painted, with reliefs of the Triumph of Venus. Plinth and giant pilasters to angles with frostwork panels to front, sunk panels to sides. Deep, bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet extending round 3 sides of lodge. Balustrade is interrupted by central, rectangular pier with recessed Coade stone panel bearing relief of urn flanked by gryphons facing inwards. Panel is flanked by 2 small red terracotta paterae, one above the other. Square pedestals to each corner of balustrade with similar, larger, paterae. Circular classical altars to pedestals stamped COADE & SEELY LAMBETH at least 2 of which are chimney flues. Right side elevation of lodge has blank, round-headed arch and sunk panel above of cast lead, painted, with the Triumph of Neptune. Rear elevation has similar composition to entrance side, but with central, shell-headed niche, one blank window and different Coade stone panel to centre of balustrade with acanthus and anthemion. C20 single-storey extension to left with return. Formerly joined to East Lodge (qv) by timber rails and gate. The lodges were built for the 1st Marquis of Buckingham and stand at the head of the first slope of the great avenue leading to Stowe from Buckingham. (Gowing CN & Clarke GB: Views of Stowe: 1983-: 5,7; PL 2).
Listing NGR: SP6914634184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377242
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gowing, C N, Clark, G B, Views of Stowe, (1983), 5 7
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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