Lodges and Entrance Gate to North West
LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATE TO NORTH WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331779
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lodges and Entrance Gate to North West
- Statutory Address:
- LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATE TO NORTH WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331779
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lodges and Entrance Gate to North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATE TO NORTH WEST
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:
- LODGES AND ENTRANCE GATE TO NORTH WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 66454 69610
Details
TL 66 NE CHIPPENHAM CHIPPENHAM PARK
6/65 Lodges and entrance gates 1.12.51 to north-west (formerly listed as Lodges GV at Chippenham Park)
II Matching pair of Neo-Classical lodges flanking gateways c.1794-8 built by James Wyatt (b.1746-d.1813) for John Tharp who purchased the Park in 1791. Gault brick with limestone dressings, slate roofs. One storey, entrances face carriageway, pedimented gable facades to north-west with double recessed round arched blind window. Panelled brick quoins. Two round-headed arched hung sash windows with glazing bars flank central doorway with round arch. Recessed door with six flush panels and round-headed fanlight with glazing bars. Gate piers and half-piers attached to each lodge surmounted by two Coade Stone Etruscan urns on stone caps. Original gates and railings.
Barber R.W. History of Chippenham, p.36-7, 1897 Pevsner. Buildings in England, p.322 Colvin. English Architects, p.722, 1954
Listing NGR: TL6645469610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 722
Barber, RW, History of Chippenham, (1897), 36-37
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 322
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
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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