Description

ROUNDWAY LONDON ROAD
SU 06 SW
(north side)
5/206 Marlborough Lodge and
gate piers
27.6.73
II

Lodge to Roundway Park, c1800, ashlar with low slate roof. Single
storey. To Roundway Park, the former drive, a projecting portico
with four paired columns, entablature and balustrade. Single
pilaster responds and half-glazed door in architrave. Entablature
continued each side with parapet and returned on end walls. End
walls have projecting pediment on angle piers, framing Venetian
window with blank side-lights and centre sash. A rear wing has
south side entablature and balustrade over 12-pane sash with
architrave and cornice set in recessed panel. Each side of
Roundway Park are two ornate oval rusticated gate piers each with
fluted band under corniced cap and raised piers with scroll tops on
four sides, cornice broken forward over scrolls. Large rounded
urn finial on heavy stepped base. Original ashlar base for iron
railings runs back from east pier to lodge which has attached
rusticated corniced pier. Roundway Park House, now demolished,
was built 1777-83 by James Wyatt for J. Sutton.

Listing NGR: SU0146262185

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535996

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6