Somerset Lodge
SOMERSET LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313077
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERSET LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313077
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERSET LODGE
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:
- SOMERSET LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cholmondeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 53712 51545
Details
SJ 55 SW CHOLMONDELEY C.P. CHOLMONDELEY PARK
1/19 Somerset Lodge
GV II
Inner park gatehouse, on the east approach to the Castle, early C19, probably for the first Marquis of Cholmondeley. Hammer-dressed sandstone with lead roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Large carriageway opening bay, slightly set forward, with full height multi-panelled openwork gates. The opening is flanked by sashes with "Y" tracery glazing bars in lancet openings and smaller lancet casements to ground floor only. The carriage arch is surmounted by a shield bearing arms and crown. The outer bays have moulded cornice and crenellated parapet and the centre bay has its parapet supported on a corbel table to simulate a tower. The east and west faces of the gatehouse are similar. Gable end stacks. The gatehouse is flanked by crenellated wing walls which hide single storey brick and stone outbuildings. Within the arch is a plastered quadripartite vaulted ceiling and Tudor-headed doors, north and south, with lock rail and five vertical panels above and below.
Listing NGR: SJ5371251545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56889
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
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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