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Huntwick Lodge and Attached Gate Arch and Screen Walls

A Grade II Listed Building in Featherstone, Wakefield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6739 / 53°40'25"N

Longitude: -1.3787 / 1°22'43"W

OS Eastings: 441138

OS Northings: 419890

OS Grid: SE411198

Mapcode National: GBR LTTY.9R

Mapcode Global: WHDC5.SXNF

Plus Code: 9C5WMJFC+GG

Entry Name: Huntwick Lodge and Attached Gate Arch and Screen Walls

Listing Date: 13 March 1964

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1262128

English Heritage Legacy ID: 435866

ID on this website: 101262128

Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF7

County: Wakefield

Civil Parish: Featherstone

Built-Up Area: Featherstone

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Kinsley with Wragby

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


FEATHERSTONE WAKEFIELD ROAD
SE 41 NW
(south side, off)
5/13 Huntwick Lodge and
13.3.64 attached gate arch and
screen walls.
II

Lodge to Nostell Priory, now house, and attached gate arch and screen walls.
Lodge dated 1655 on lintel of door, with C19 addition, gate arch and screen
wall probably C18. Sandstone ashlar, stone slate roof. The Lodge, on west
side of drive, of rectangular plan formed by 2 square single units of
different builds, all 2 storeys and each element cross-gabled; east front to
drive, one bay, has a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with raised lettering on
lintel "R.T
1655", a hoodmould above the door (with triple stepped moulding), a
blind or blocked window at 1st floor, and a straight dripmould 2 courses
above this (with similar moulding); the north and south sides each have one
2-light mullioned window on each floor, the lower with hoodmoulds and the
upper with straight dripmoulds 2 courses above. The gables of all sides have
moulded coping. On the south side there is a chimney at the junction with
the addition, which is in matching style and has another chimney at the
corner. Gate arch, attached to south east corner of lodge, of 2-storey
height, has imposts to an elliptical-headed arch, rectangular piers, the
south sides of which each have a coved niche, and a moulded cornice to the
whole; on top of each pier the sculpted figure of a hound couchant. Half-
height wooden double doors with ornamental strap hinges. Continued eastwards
from the gateway, a lower screen wall approx. 10 metres long, with a Tudor-
arched doorway at the nearer end; and continued westwards from the lodge a
garden wall approx 15 metres long, with weathered coping, terminating at a
square pier.


Listing NGR: SE4113819890

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