Kilmersdon Lodges, Gate Piers and Gates
KILMERSDON LODGES, GATE PIERS AND GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307411
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Kilmersdon Lodges, Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- KILMERSDON LODGES, GATE PIERS AND GATES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307411
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Kilmersdon Lodges, Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- KILMERSDON LODGES, GATE PIERS AND GATES
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:
- KILMERSDON LODGES, GATE PIERS AND GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilmersdon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 70661 52290
Details
KILMERSDON CP ST75SW AMMERDOWN PARK 6/138 Kilmersdon Lodges, gate piers and gates 11.3.68 - II*
Pair of lodges, gate piers and gates. Lodges 1788 by James Wyatt; gate piers and gates probably early C19; for Jolliffe family. Ashlar, roofs missing. Lodges Greek Revival; square on plan; flanking former driveway. Centres of front (inward-facing) and side elevations break forward slightly with pediments; plain side and angle pilasters support entablature with plain frieze and cornice; centre of each front emphasised as a shallow portico with distyle Ionic columns. Windows, 2 in front, one each side, are blank with glazing missing, cambered heads, cambered head recesses. Door opening to centre of each portico in moulded architrave, doors missing. Between the lodges a pair of square ashlar panelled gate piers with moulded cornices and square die-shaped caps; double ornamental cast-iron central gates and similar pedestrian gates. Ensemble in distressingly poor state at time of resurvey (May 1985). (Country Life, Feb 16, 1929).
Listing NGR: ST7066152290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 16 February, (1929)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
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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