Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW AUDLEY END ROAD, Audley End
669-1/3/334 Lion Gate
01/11/72
(Formerly Listed as:
AUDLEY END
Lion Gate)

GV II*

Principal gateway to Audley End House (qv). Re-built 1786.
Oolitic stone, now colourwashed. Central large carriageway and
smaller side footways, all with semicircular arched heads set
between inner and outer piers with recessed panelled
pilasters, footways have walling with recessed panels above.
Attic storey over central arch has inscription panel with date
of 1786 and surmounting Coade stone gorged lion on a chapeau
inscribed `Coade, London'. Also, draped oval Coade stone urns
surmount the flanking piers. Lower terminal piers also have
smaller similar urns, to W of Coade stone, to E in imitation.
The date, 1616 is set in the spandrels of the centre gate
arch. Wrought-iron, leaf decorated 2-leaved gates to each
archway with subsidiary iron gate piers to central archway.
All paired gates have a dropped swept centre and spear head
railings.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex:
London: 1965-: 65).

Listing NGR: TL5233238023

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534176

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)