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SOUTH CAVE CHURCH HILL
SE 93 SW
(east side)
2/36 West Lodge and screen
walls to Cave Castle
GV II
Lodge and screen walls to Cave Castle. c1870. Yellow brick with stone
dressings, concealed roofs. Gothic Revival style. Irregular plan: carriage
gateway flanked by single square tower with pedestrian gate to right and 2
similar towers, joined by a smaller, taller turret, to left. Screen walls
to right and left. 4-centred arch with false machicolations and crenellated
parapet over pair of gates with scrolled rails and spiked bars. Of the 2
left towers, the right has 3-light casement windows under hoodmoulds to the
ground and first floors: between is a square panel bearing the coat of arms
of the Barnard family. The left tower is similarly treated, without a coat
of arms. The connecting turret is recessed and has a single-light window
under a hoodmould to first floor and gun loop over. Dentilled cornices and
crenellated parapets to all towers. Concealed stack within connecting
tower. To the right the tower has a 4-centred pedestrian passage, flanked
by attached semi-octagonal turrets, below a crenellated parapet. Above,
tower is recessed and has a panel with a coat of arms beneath a false gun
loop. Dentilled cornice, crenellated parapet. Crenellated screen walls
terminate in square abutments with low pyramidal caps: 2 false gun loops to
each side.

Listing NGR: SE9160030972