NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE

NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296589
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE
Statutory Address:: NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296589
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD

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:: NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Wolverley and Cookley
National Grid Reference:: SO 84602 79573

Details

WOLVERLEY & COOKLEY CP CASTLE ROAD (west side) SO 87 NW Cookley 6/138 North Lodges and gateway of Lea Castle - II Two lodges and gateway. Early C19 with some mid-C20 alterations. Brick with tile roofs. The gateway has a crenellated parapet, tripartite entrance, large Tudor arch flanked by two small Tudor arches. Right-hand lodge: two-storey tower with angle buttresses, crenellated parapet, a pointed single-light window with label at first floor. Ground floor: window of two pointed lights under a square head with label; to right a single-storey block with a similar 2-light window. Left-hand lodge is a mirror image; entrance to houses are from the carriageway. (BoE, p 124; Reid, P: Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcester- shire, 1980, p 215).

Listing NGR: SO8460279573

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Legacy System number:: 157130
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 124
Reid, P, 'Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses' in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, , Vol. 2, (1980), 215

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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.