Description

HEALEY MINSTERACRES
NZ 05 NW NZ 022554
West Lodge, West Lodge
10/145
North, and walls and
gatepiers

II

Pair of flanking lodges, walls and gatepiers to drive. Late C18. Lodges
coursed rubble with tooled quoins and dressings; -stone slate roofs. Walls
and piers tooled-and-margined stone. Square piers with steep pyramidal caps
and attached jambs with moulded tops. Link walls with flat coping, ramped up
towards lodges. Lodge elevations to drive each I storey 2 bays. Blocked
pointed doorway at west end of each wall, that on north with window inserted.
12-pane Yorkshire sash windows with intersecting glazing bars under pointed
heads, eastern on south lodge altered with boarded door inserted. Large sunk
quatrefoil, between windows, set with mineral specimens (purple fluorspar,
quartz etc.). All openings have raised stone surrounds. Coped gables with
moulded kneelers, stepped and corniced ridge stacks.
One lodge was used as a school in the C19, the other as the schoolmaster's
house.

Listing NGR: NZ0227855443

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590537

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair