Description

WOLVERLEY & COOKLEY CP CASTLE ROAD (west side)
SO 87 NW Cookley
6/138 North Lodges and gateway
of Lea Castle
- II
Two lodges and gateway. Early C19 with some mid-C20 alterations. Brick with
tile roofs. The gateway has a crenellated parapet, tripartite entrance, large
Tudor arch flanked by two small Tudor arches. Right-hand lodge: two-storey
tower with angle buttresses, crenellated parapet, a pointed single-light
window with label at first floor. Ground floor: window of two pointed lights
under a square head with label; to right a single-storey block with a similar
2-light window. Left-hand lodge is a mirror image; entrance to houses are
from the carriageway. (BoE, p 124; Reid, P: Burke's and Savills Guide to
Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcester-
shire, 1980, p 215).

Listing NGR: SO8460279573

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584227

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)