Description

HIGHCLERE

186/2/32 HIGHCLERE PARK
16-MAY-66 LONDON LODGE

II*

Arched gateway flanked by single-storey lodges. 1793 with lodges added c1840. Brick and rendered archway with Coade stone dressings and iron gates, ashlar lodges with hidden slate roofs.
Roman-style archway has an architrave moulding with a sculptured head keystone, the impost moulding passing along the inner face. On each side are coupled pilasters on a pedestal, of Ionic Order (of low relief Adam style), with a modillion entablature. The bases of these pilasters are inscribed COADE, LONDON, 1793. The blocking course at the top has a raised central section, surmounted by an ornate vase. The simple lodges are linked to the gateway by plain curved walling, the whole having a plain blocking course, a cornice, rusticated quoins, and a plinth. On the north there is a sash in reveals, on the south a half-glazed door beneath a panel.
There is a pair of heavy cast iron gates.
This gate was built for the Herbert family as an entrance to the Highclere estate.

Listing NGR: SU4436159744

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532491

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)