Description

THAME
SP70SW THAME PARK ROAD, Thame
Park
1707-0/4/10003 Lodges and Gateway about
1, 050 metres north west of
Thame Park

II
Gateway screen at entrance to park. Circa 1830 with C20 additions. Rendered red brick with
freestone dressings. Screen wall of seven bays, the central one taller and with large 4-centred
carriage arch, the fourth bay has similar but smaller pedestrian gateway, both double-chamfered
and with cast-iron Gothic gates. Castellated Gothick style with battlements to end piers and the
taller central bay; buttresses between bays supporting block finials with quatrefoils, and
cruciform false loops on the carriage arch piers. Large buttresses to these piers on the inner sides
are C20, of concrete blocks over steel shores. Two lodges with coped parapets are attached to
either side and are ruinous; they might be later, but also of rendered brick; the southern one has
a four-panel door with studded planted chamfer to the panels. Source: Buildings of England,
page 812.

Listing NGR: SP7096604492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26303952

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)