Description

LANCASTER

SD46SE ASHTON ROAD 1685-1/1/345 (West side) 18/02/70 Entrance lodge at Ripley St Thomas School (Formerly Listed as: ASHTON ROAD Lodge and adjacent entrance gateway at Ripley St Thomas' School)

GV II

Entrance lodge. 1885. By Paley and Austin. Snecked sandstone rubble with slate roof. L-plan, with gabled cross-wing at left. One storey with attic. The cross-wing has a single-storey 6-light stone bowed window with coped parapet. The attic storey is lit by a 3-light mullioned window with blind trefoil heads to the lights. The main range has a 3-light double-chamfered mullioned window. To its left, in the angle with the cross-wing, is an open porch under a slated lean-to roof supported on timber posts, 2 of which are turned, with their heads connected by flat timber ogee arches, and with a low timber balustrade. The doorway has moulded stone jambs and a shaped lintel dated '1885'. Both gables have copings. Chimneys with clustered shafts at left and at rear towards the right.

Listing NGR: SD4771860778

External Links

• Wikidata Q26489531

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)