Description

SU 98 SE STOKE POGES CHURCH LANE

8/608 Entrance gates, lamps
and lodges to Stoke
Park

- II*

Circa 1800, probably by James Wyatt. Symmetrical composition of gates,
piers, quadrant railing screens, curtain walls and 2 lodges. Wrought iron
carriage gate flanked immediately by smaller gates for pedestrians. Tall
stucco piers, each with pair of detached Greek Doric columns carrying entab-
labture surmounted by a stucco demi-lion rampant. Quadrant wrought iron
screens. Curtain walls, each with case iron gate with central oval panel
on which is bas relief of pair of busts in profile superimposed. Symmetrical
pair of lodges facing each other. Stuccoed slate roofs. One-storey with
chimney stacks astride roof ridge. Road elevation, one sash set in round-headed
panel and flanked by niches with oblong panels above. Drive elevation with
a Doric porch flanked on each side by one sash with panel above. Right
hand lodge with glazing bars. Left hand lodge without glazing bars. Between
lodges and gate piers are 2 cast iron lamps and standards on truncated Doric
columns.

Listing NGR: SU9746682332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540073

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)