Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School

Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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A gate lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405695
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School
Statutory Address:: Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405695
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School
Location Description:: The gate lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates are located at the main entrance to Kingswood School, on the south-west side of Lansdown Road.
Statutory Address 1:: Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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:: ST7443766697

Summary

A gate lodge with attached walls, gate-piers and gates to Kingswood School.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: for the Tudor Gothic design of the lodge and the elaborate ironwork of the gates which, together, form an attractive composition fronting Lansdown Road; * Group value: with the main school building and the school chapel, both listed at Grade II.

History

The first build at Kingswood School was completed in 1851, and it is believed that the entrance lodge and the adjoining castellated wall were erected shortly afterwards, c.1860, to the designs of James Wilson. In c.1920 the walls, gate-piers and gates of a First World War memorial gateway were added at the school entrance to commemorate the former fallen pupils of the school.

Details

Lodge and adjoining wall of c.1860, by James Wilson, and the walls, gate-piers and gates of a First World War memorial gateway of c.1920.

MATERIALS: The lodge is built in limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and has a double depth plan whilst the attached wall is of square ashlar blocks with coped castellations. The war memorial gateway has limestone ashlar walls and gate-piers and wrought-iron gates.

EXTERIOR: the lodge has two storeys, and a single window bay, and is built in a Tudor Gothic style. The front elevation has a canted bay with a stone mullioned window of 1:2:1-lights, each divided into four-panes. There is a Tudor arch door to the left in the lean-to extension. Above is a two-light stone mullioned window in recessed frame, each light with four-panes. It has a gable with double kneelers and moulded coping, with a moulded finial. The street elevation has a projecting stack with set off, weathering, double shaft set on diamond and castellated caps. To the right is a plinth below a window with three-panes in recessed frame, below one with four-panes. Gable with single kneeler, moulded coping and cross finial. Adjoining the lodge on the right-hand side is a castellated wall. The war memorial gateway comprises wrought-iron double gates, in an elaborate C18 manner, with an overthrow containing the school crest, flanked by panelled piers with cornices and large acorn finials. These in turn are flanked by single gates and smaller plain piers. The lower wing wall connects with the lodge.

INTERIOR: Not inspected.

The lodge with attached walls, gate piers and gates form an attractive addition to the main school buildings with which they have strong group value.

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson, N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, (1991), 199
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 215

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.