Lower Lodge, With Walls, Railings and Piers
LOWER LODGE, WITH WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394612
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Lodge, With Walls, Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER LODGE, WITH WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394612
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Lodge, With Walls, Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER LODGE, WITH WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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:
- LOWER LODGE, WITH WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75827 63752
Details
RALPH ALLEN DRIVE 656-1/56/1368 (North West side) 12/06/50 Lower Lodge, with walls, railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: RALPH ALLEN DRIVE Porter's Lodge)
II
Entrance lodge to Prior Park. c1740 by John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Fine limestone ashlar, stone slate roof. PLAN: Small single depth gabled block, but with lower added single bay. EXTERIOR: Three storeys. Entrance front has two small oculi above fine Palladian window with radial bars to centre light, with entablature, plain architrave and keystone to plain pilasters, above plain apron. Ground floor treated as a 'Rustick' or basement with small arched six-pane lights with keystone and central elliptical arch to six-panel door, with a full width impost band, returned to jambs. Rusticated quoins, channelled pilasters, plinth, first floor band, moulded cornice, returned to pilasters, copings to kneelers, and ashlar stack each end. East side elevation to Church Street has a small arched window, part-concealed by later extension, with heavy keystone and imposts, at first floor level. Rear elevation sports two oval lights to first floor. Single bay block to left has arched four-pane window above an elliptical arched two-light casement; comes to acute angle at rear. Front to Ralph Allen Drive has eight-pane arched light with impost band and keystone to first floor, with a larger version to second floor above and smaller version to ground floor. Rear wall in coursed rubble, with two oculi above ground floor lean-to range, and with stone eaves band to concealed gutter. Rear of wing has twelve-pane at each level, and corner stack. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Across front of lodge, swept in semicircle, ashlar wall with stepped saddle-back coping carrying short spikes, opposite entrance pair of square piers with flat pyramidal cappings, with cast iron gate with dog-bars. Wall stops to facade at north end, and to large pier with pyramidal capping to south, beyond which length of railing to higher return wall. HISTORY: The lodge was at the north end of the main carriage drive to Prior Park (qv), and is first shown on the Thorp Map of 1742. SOURCE: Gillian Clarke, `Prior Park. A Compleat Landscape¿ (Bath 1987), 40.
Listing NGR: ST7582763752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510012
- 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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