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SK38NE MELROSE ROAD 784-1/6/510 (North side) Lodges, railings and gate piers at Burngreave Cemetery

GV II

2 lodges, railings and gate piers. 1860-61. By Flockton & Lee. Coursed squared stone and ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Cast-iron railings. Jacobean Revival style. EXTERIOR: larger lodge, to left, formerly the superintendent's house, has plinth, quoins, string course and coped gables. 2 gable stacks, one external, plus single lateral and ridge stacks. 2 storeys; 3 window range. L-plan. Central square tower porch with single chamfered window and above, a traceried wooden bell stage and steep pitched pyramidal roof. Diagonal buttress, and moulded pointed doorways to front and to right. Flush gable to left has a 2-light stone mullioned window and below, a canted bay window with plain sashes. Set back wing to right has a through eaves gabled dormer with a 2-light mullioned window and below, a 2-light mullioned window. Left return has a similar dormer and below, a 3-light mullioned window. Smaller lodge, to right, formerly the sexton's house, in a simpler version of the same style. 2 storeys; 2 window range. L-plan. Single external gable and single ridge stacks. Large left gable has a 2-light mullioned window on each floor and to right, a shouldered doorway with close boarded door. Right return has a single chamfered window on each side of the stack. INTERIOR not inspected. Between the lodges, 4 gate piers with gabled tops and pyramidal caps with crocket finials. 3 pairs of cast-iron gates. Beyond, on either side, a cast-iron railing on a chamfered stone plinth. Gates and railings have Decorated tracery. Beyond the railings, on either side, short boundary walls linked to the lodges. The left one has chamfered plinth and coping, the right one a gabled rubble coping. Lodges unoccupied and boarded up at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK3590689031

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