The Lodge
THE LODGE, HIGHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391179
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE, HIGHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391179
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LODGE, HIGHFIELD ROAD
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:
- THE LODGE, HIGHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Croston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49472 18606
Details
CROSTON
1837/0/10014 HIGHFIELD ROAD
23-DEC-04 The Lodge
II
Lodge and attached entrance walls. Mid C19. Attributed to E.W. Pugin (1834-1875), architect of Croston Hall (demolished). Smooth red brick with ashlar stone dressings, tall ridge and side wall chimneys with elaborate corbelled caps, and a blue tile roof covering with decorative banding and intricately crested ridge tiles.
Plan: T-shaped range, made up of a two storey part facing onto the approach drive to the east, and a single storeyed service range to the rear.
Exterior: East elevation of two storeys and two bays rising from a shallow plinth with advanced monopitch porch, incorporating a four centre arch-headed doorway set beneath elaborate decorative gablet. Planked and studded door. Single lancet windows to porch cheeks, and two light window to right-hand bay, the lights with arched heads. South gable with bay window below sloping roof, with two lights to front and single side lights. Upper floor window opening with shouldered ashlar lintel with arch-shaped head, and a 2 over 2 pane sash window. Above, plain barge boards and decorative iron finial. Single storeyed rear range with doorway close to junction with main range. This is set within a steeply-pitched porch canopy, and has an arched head with decorative brick and stone patterning above. Half glazed door, with single light window to right. All door and window surrounds have recessed and corbelled brick detailing to jambs. Coursed rubble entrance walls with shallow buttresses and angle buttresses with set-off and steeply-pitched ashlar copings splay outwards from driveway, and extend along the road frontage east and west.
Interior: Not inspected.
History: The Lodge was built as the gatehouse to Croston Hall, home of the de Trafford family, and built to the designs of E.W.Pugin. The Hall was demolished in the 1960s and the Lodge, which shares some of the detailing of the Hall, is believed also to be the work of E.W. Pugin.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491513
- 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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