West Lodge and Entrance Screen
WEST LODGE AND ENTRANCE SCREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322734
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- West Lodge and Entrance Screen
- Statutory Address:
- WEST LODGE AND ENTRANCE SCREEN
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- Date:
- 2003-03-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/10376/04
- Rights:
- © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322734
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Lodge and Entrance Screen
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST LODGE AND ENTRANCE SCREEN
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:
- WEST LODGE AND ENTRANCE SCREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rokeby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 07977 14133
Details
NZ 01 SE ROKEBY ROKEBY PARK
6/154 West Lodge and Entrance Screen 12.1.67 (formerly listed as Entrance Lodge and gate piers to Rokeby Hall)
II
Gate lodge and entrance screen. Early C19, for J.B.S. Morritt. Ashlar except for squared stone left return of lodge; Lakeland slate roof; gates cast and wrought iron. Greek Revival style.
l-storey,l-bay lodge. Eaves cornice on block corbels.: Shallow distyle-in- antis Doric porch enclosing fielded-panel door in panelled stone surround. Low pyramid roof with small banded stack at apex. Right return shows broad recess with 9-pane sash window in panelled surround; left return shows 16-pane sash in stone surround.
Gate piers have moulded bases and Greek key friezes, and carry seated stone sphinxes. Dwarf quadrant walls with gabled coping, carrying railings with moulded spike finials, join similar end piers. Double gates with scroll- topped stiles, plain bars and dogbars, and crossed diagonals below mid-rail. Short length of railing with similar single gate, to right of outer pier, links to lodge.
Historical note: The artist J.S. Cotman mentions in a letter that he had made suggestions to Mr. Morritt about the lodges, which Morritt intended to take (Holcomb, 'John Sell Cotman in the Cholmeley Archive', North Yorks County Record Office publication No. 22, 1980).
Listing NGR: NZ0797714133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111744
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Holcomb, John Sell Cotman in the Cholmley Archive, (1980)
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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