Description

SE 42 NW
7/33
4th July 1952

LEDSTON
HALL LANE WF10
Entrance gates and lodges

GV
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Entrance gate probably late C17, with side lodges probably early C18.
Magnesian limestone ashlar. The gateway is a square-headed opening in a
rusticated rectangular surround with a cornice broken in the centre by
elongated central voussoirs, and a segmental pediment broken in the centre by
a pedestal surmounted by a carved coat of arms. The archway contains
wrought-iron double gates with scrolled wrought-iron panel above, embodying
Sir John Lewis's cypher in the centre. Each side is the pier or pilaster of
a former screen, surmounted by a scrolled console, and, abutting these, cubic
lodges set diagonally: each of these has an impost band carried round the
whole, a round-headed doorway on the inner wall and round-headed window in
each of the other sides, all these with glazing bars, moulded architraves,
and triple keystones rising to the frieze of a moulded cornice; and plain
parapet with restored urns on the corners.

Listing NGR: SE4359028889

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530550

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)