Description

SE34SW
SE325431
6/88
30.3.66

HAREWOOD
HARROGATE ROAD LS17
(west side)
Gatepiers, quadrant walls, railings and gates at Lofthouse Lodge

GV
II

Gatepiers, gates, quadrant walls and railings. c1755 probably by John Carr
for Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. Ashlar, cast- and wrought-iron.
Pair of main gatepiers and a pair of subsidiary gatepiers to which are attached
curving quadrant walls which terminate in small piers. Main gatepiers: channelled
rustication, Doric entablature, cyma-moulded cornice, frieze with paterae,
triangular casement-moulded pediment, the cornice continued round the sides.
Lower flanking piers: similarly treated with channelled rustication, Doric
entablature and triangular pediments. Gates and railings have simple stick bars
terminating in obelisk finials. Hinge has standard and gun-barrel turned rod
surmounted by urn finial. Flanking quadrant walls: low with moulded ashlar coping
surmounted by railings with bars with every 15th bar a standard. Terminates in
square low piers with projecting square cornices and slightly domed caps.

Gave the main access in the C18 to Harewood House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SE3250643135

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520353

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)