West Lodges With Gates Gatepiers and Flanking Walls

WEST LODGES WITH GATES GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS, LADGATE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329638
Date first listed:
05-May-1952
List Entry Name:
West Lodges With Gates Gatepiers and Flanking Walls
Statutory Address:
WEST LODGES WITH GATES GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS, LADGATE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1329638
Date first listed:
05-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
West Lodges With Gates Gatepiers and Flanking Walls
Statutory Address 1:
WEST LODGES WITH GATES GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS, LADGATE LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WEST LODGES WITH GATES GATEPIERS AND FLANKING WALLS, LADGATE LANE

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

District:
Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 52099 16911

Details

ORMESBY LADGATE LANE, south side NZ 51 NW 6/35 West Lodges, with gates, 5.5.52 gatepiers and flanking walls. (Formerly listed as Gateway and Lodges at Ormesby Hall). - II*

Pair of lodges with gates, gatepiers and flanking walls; mid C18, with c.1770/75 panels and finials. At entrance to former driveway of Ormesby Hall (q.v.). Sandstone ashlar, painted stone pedestals; slate roofs and renewed wrought iron gates. Palladian with Adam-style panels and finials: Central gatepiers, linked to flanking lodges by short walls which have round-headed pedestrian gateways with archivolts, plain impost bands and single-leaf gates. Lodges 1½ storeys, single-bay open-pedimented fronts. Entered from doorways in returns. Each has chamfered rustication below continuous impost band of round-arched recess holding blocked round-headed window with voussoirs. Panels ornamented with paterae and husk garlands in tympana; dentil cornices. Single-storey, single-bay, mock wings adjoin ends of lodges and have similar recesses. Blocked doorways in inner returns, with moulded surrounds, that in left lodge missing. Continuous dentilled eaves cornice. Rear of lodges similar to fronts, with blocked openings including windows in tympana. Gatepiers have chamfered rustication and support corniced pedestals without plinths, ornamented with paterae and husk garlands. Sculptured lion-head finials pierced by spears (Pennyman crest) now missing (stored at Ormesby Hall). Double-leaf gates have curved rails and spear-head verticals. Walls flank the mock wings and curve out to the road, terminating in chamfered-rusticated piers with ogee saucer-domed caps. Disused and dilapidated at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: NZ5209916911

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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.

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