Survey Data
Reg No
20907644
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
184753, 68566
Date Recorded
14/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of detached single-bay two-storey former gate lodges, built c. 1800, now derelict. Remains of hipped slate roofs. Rubble stone walls with round-arched recess to front (north) elevations. Elliptical-arched openings. Gate lodges flanking vehicular entrance to country house. Rendered square-profile piers with cut limestone capstones flanked by pedestrian entrances, single-leaf and double-leaf wrought-iron gates remaining.
Appraisal
Symmetry and round-headed openings evidence of conscious design typical of demesne architecture. Part of the demesne of Belgrove, home of the nineteenth-century horticulturalist William Edward Gumbleton. Although in poor repair, retains form, scale and symmetry and is an interesting architectural feature on roadscape.