North Lodges and Gateway of Lea Castle
NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1296589
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1296589
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH LODGES AND GATEWAY OF LEA CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD
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
Legacy
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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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