South Lodge and attached gate piers

South Lodge and attached gate piers, 1 Duchess Drive Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8AG, Newmarket, CB8 8AG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374826
Date first listed:
26-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
South Lodge and attached gate piers
Statutory Address:
South Lodge and attached gate piers, 1 Duchess Drive Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8AG, Newmarket, CB8 8AG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374826
Date first listed:
26-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
South Lodge and attached gate piers
Statutory Address 1:
South Lodge and attached gate piers, 1 Duchess Drive Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8AG, Newmarket, CB8 8AG

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
South Lodge and attached gate piers, 1 Duchess Drive Newmarket Suffolk CB8 8AG, Newmarket, CB8 8AG

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Newmarket
National Grid Reference:
TL 65393 62962

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 January 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 66 SE
5/77

NEWMARKET (including EXNING)
DUCHESS DRIVE
No 1 (South Lodge) and attached gate piers

(Formerly listed as CENTRE DRIVE (including EXNING) No 1 North Lodge and attached gate piers)

GV
II

One of a pair of gatelodge cottages to Cheveley Park, late C19.

Irregular cruciform plan; one storey. In the Queen Anne Revival Style. Red brick, with Flemish gables at each of four arms, moulded brick eaves cornice and limestone string at window cill one level ; in two of the four gables an achievement in finely carved brick. Plaintiled roofs with axial chimney of red brick. Two gables have a splayed bay with hipped plaintiled roof and small-pane casements. Recessed entrance porch with segmental arched head of gauged brick having carved spandrils, a flat lead-roofed canopy on prominent and richly-carved wooden console brackets.

Linked by short brick walls to the cottage and to each other on the south-west side are a pair of 2.5m high banded square gate piers of finely gauded red brick; each has a moulded capping of limestone, one retaining its ball finial.

Listing NGR: TL6539362962

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
275637
Legacy System:
LBS

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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