Entrance piers, gates and wall to Westwood Lodge
Westwood Lodge, Poorhole Lane, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2PP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1446510
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance piers, gates and wall to Westwood Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- Westwood Lodge, Poorhole Lane, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2PP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1446510
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance piers, gates and wall to Westwood Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Westwood Lodge, Poorhole Lane, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2PP
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:
- Westwood Lodge, Poorhole Lane, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2PP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadstairs and St. Peters
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3645468293
Summary
Entrance piers, gates and wall to Westwood Lodge, built circa 1865 in Gothic style. The architect is not at present known but may have been Henry Winnock Hayward.
Reasons for Designation
The entrance piers, gates and wall to Westwood Lodge in a Gothic style of circa 1865 are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Design interest: constructed of good quality materials, ashlar, knapped flint and cast iron, the gate piers are of elaborate design, two of them incorporating the coat of arms, shield and motto of the Herepath family who built Westwood Lodge;
* Group value: an ancillary structure to Westwood Lodge.
History
Built circa 1865 as the entrance to Westwood Lodge, the holiday house of Spencer Herepath, a stockbroker whose main residence was in Kensington.
Details
Entrance piers, gates and wall to Westwood Lodge, built circa 1865 in a Gothic style. The architect is not at present known but may have been Henry Winnock Hayward.
MATERIALS: ashlar and knapped flint piers with iron gates and ashlar and knapped flint walls.
PLAN: curved wall around the entrance with attached gate piers and gates and a further single pier to the SW.
DESCRIPTION: two square piers of knapped flint with ashlar quoins and pyramidal caps carved with the name of the house Westwood, and above, under a curved hood, the coat of arms and shield of the Herepath family VERITATIS ET INGENII VIRIBUS (by the strength of truth and talent). The gate piers are linked by cast iron vehicular gates with scrollwork decoration. Adjoining is a low curved knapped flint wall with ashlar coping and evidence for iron railings. Further SE defining the end of the curve on this side is a similar single pier, also of knapped flint with ashlar quoins and a pyramidal ashlar cap.
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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