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SE 4522 SE
5/58

PONTEFRACT
SKINNER LANE (west side)
Gateway and lodges for Old Military Depot

13.7.87

II

Gateway and lodges. c 1859. Ashlar sandstone, Welsh slate roofs. Two storeys; central gateway flanked by projecting turrets, with attached lodges, all canted around corner site. Central gateway has leaved studded doors, each of ten panes, set within tall segmental-pointed-arched opening which has stop-chamfered jambs and moulded arris to voussoired arch. Above, pointed-arched Lombard frieze supports crenellated parapet. Turrets have double-chamfered plinths, and are battered, with a slit on each floor and an inserted small window between the slits to the left tower;.triple-corbelled machicolations to crenellated parapets; ground-floor slits on inner returns.

Outer ranges have, to left, a square window and a slit on each floor; to right a rock-faced plinth, a ground-floor two-light mullion window and three first-floor slits; both have triple-corbelled machiciolations to crenellated parapets. Hipped roofs over lodges, with corbelled corniced stacks at outer ends. Rear: plain arch, but jambs stop-chamfered; ground-floor windows formerly of three lights, two-light first-floor windows. Parapets as at front. Northern lodge is of L-shaped plan, with first-floor two-light window above roof of wrapped-round outbuildings. Access to lodges from doorways inside archway. The gateway formed the entrance to the Military Depot of the Pontefract Corps of the West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. It was disused at the time of the re-survey. The brick ranges outside the lodges are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE4564422181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428813

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)