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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489531

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)