BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST LODGE

BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282690
Date first listed:: 03-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST LODGE
Statutory Address:: BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282690
Date first listed:: 03-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST LODGE, STOWE AVENUE

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:: BUCKINGHAM LODGES, EAST 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 69169 34197

Details

BUCKINGHAM

SP6934 STOWE AVENUE 879-1/5/144 (East side) 03/04/73 Buckingham Lodges; East 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 recessed 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 relief 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. Left 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 right. Formerly joined to West 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 & Clark GB: Views of Stowe: 1983-: 5,7; PL 2).

Listing NGR: SP6916934197

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 377241
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.