Description

BRADFIELD
SK 39 SW MIDDLEWOOD ROAD
(South West side)

564/10/10006 Lodge and attached railings
and gateway at Middlewood
Hospital

08-OCT-1996 II

Lodge with attached railings and gateway. Dated 1877. Probably by Bernard Hartley, City Surveyor, designer of the South Yorkshire Asylum. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs (partly stripped at time of survey) with finials. Prominent side wall and rear wall stacks. 2 storeys plus attics. L-plan. Facing the street, a projecting crowstepped gable with a shouldered mullioned window, 2 lights. Above, a mullioned window, 3 lights, with stepped head. To left, in the return angle, a hipped porch with octagonal wooden posts on a brick plinth. Under the porch, a 6-panel door and a narrow window. Above, a plain sash. Left return has a large cross mullioned window with blind upper lights, inscribed "SYA 1877". To the left of the porch, a curved wrought iron railing approx. 5m long, on a chamfered ashlar plinth. To its left, a gateway with 4 octagonal ashlar piers with crenellated caps, the inner pair topped with lamp brackets. Central pair of wrought iron gates, flanked by single side gates. To left again, a further railing and plinth, approx. 5m long.

Listing NGR: SK3255191224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558586

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)