Description

1816/0/10029
20-JAN-03

WRINGTON
ROPERS LANE
Ropers Lodge including iron garden gate, gate-posts and railings immediately east.

II

Lodge. Circa 1830s. Coursed limestone. Concrete tile roof with deep eaves and verges on rustic stone corbels and with semi-conical end to east, hipped to west and gabled to south. Diagonally-set rendered stone stack with grotesque stone masks at the corners.
PLAN: L-shaped on plan, with semi-circular end to east front, originally with porch in the south east angle and with late C20 outshut on the north side.
Picturesque Tudor Gothic cottage style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. South front has projecting gabled wing on left with small single-light ground floor window with hoodmould and larger pointed arch window with Y-tracery and casement, both with rustic stone label stops. East wing has moulded doorframe with moulded pointed open spandrel arch and plank door with cover moulds and wrought-iron hinges and with weathering for missing canopy; semi-circular east end of east wing with two windows on ground floor and one on first floor with hood moulds with rustic stone stops and 3-light casments; all the windows have moulded timber lintels and stone cills. At rear north similar 2-light first floor window on right above late C20 single storey outshut.
INTERIOR: Panelled window shutters were observed.
Including ornate wrought-iron gate to east, its gate-posts with crocketed pinnacles, each with four small heads at the base and to the right iron-rod railings with plain stanchions.
A good example of a late Georgian Picturesque Tudor Gothic style lodge.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26633600

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]