NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL

NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL, WESTON PARK EAST

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Neo-classical lodge, 1850-52 by Wilson & Fuller, who designed Cranwells. It is built in Bath stone ashlar with a shallow pyramidal slate roof set behind a high parapet and a tall central chimney stack. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395685
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL
Statutory Address:: NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL, WESTON PARK EAST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395685
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL
Statutory Address 1:: NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL, WESTON PARK EAST

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: NETHERWOOD, FORMER LODGE TO CRANWELL, WESTON PARK EAST

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 73576 66012

Details

WESTON PARK EAST 656-1/28/10054 (East side)

Netherwood, former lodge to Cranwell 03/02/2010

II

Neo-classical lodge, 1850-52 by Wilson & Fuller, who designed Cranwells. It is built in Bath stone ashlar with a shallow pyramidal slate roof set behind a high parapet and a tall central chimney stack.

PLAN: The single storey building has an almost square plan with a porch to the front and with two small rectangular, linked flat-roofed extensions (including a garage) to the rear, dating from c1930; these are not of special interest.

EXTERIOR: The porch to the north-east front has an open pediment incorporating a round headed central doorway with pronounced central keystone, flanked on either side by plain pilasters. On either side of the porch is an eight pane sash window, identical to the two on the west elevation (the east elevation could not be seen).

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

SETTING: The lodge marks the main entrance drive leading to Cranwells. Immediately to its north stands a pair of mid-C19 gate piers (listed Grade II). These give access to a drive that runs along the southern boundary of the parkland, laid out in the mid-C19, and then leads in a northerly direction to the former mansion (listed Grade II).

HISTORY: The lodge was built to serve Cranwells, a large mansion designed by Wilson & Fuller in 1850-2 for Jerom Murch (1807-1895), Unitarian minister and former Mayor of Bath. The mansion and the main drive are first depicted on Cotterell's map of Bath of 1852. Murch was a keen plantsman, and shortly after the completion of his mansion, a garden with a fountain surrounded by a park with a small lake were laid out. This was served by an entrance lodge to the south-west and one to the north (see Ordnance Survey Town Map for Bath (1:500) of 1886).

After Murch's death in 1895, the estate was bought by Saxton Campbell Cory, a wealthy colliery owner, who refurbished the house. In 1909 it was purchased by Alfred Pitman, the founder of the Pitman Press, and the Sale Particulars describe the entrance lodge as having four rooms with an outbuilding.

In 1952 it was bought by Edward Greenland, a tobacconist and confectioner, who sold off the majority of the parkland for development, including the south lodge, which became a private dwelling, known as Netherwood. In 1961 the Bath Corporation placed a Compulsary Purchase Order on Cranwells to accommodate Cranwells Art Secondary School (later in the 1970s to become a special needs school, named Summerfield School).

SOURCES: K Ross, Building and Archaeology Report on Summerfield School, Weston Park East, Weston, Bath (Oct 2006), for Property Services, Bath and North-East Somerset Council.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Netherwood, the former lodge to Cranwells, Weston Park East, Bath merits listing at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Despite a later extension, the lodge has survived intact, retains its good quality architectural detailing and is well proportioned, reflecting the special interest of the surviving mansion it served (listed Grade II).

* It is an important feature within the surviving part of park and forms an interesting group with its associated features

* It has retained its function as marking the main surviving entrance drive to Cranwells, reflecting its architectural style and quality. Listing NGR: ST7357666012

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 511097
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.