Lodges and Gates to Alscot Park with Flanking Ashlar Walls, Preston on Stour, Warwickshire

Entry Name: Lodges and Gates to Alscot Park with Flanking Ashlar Walls

Listing Date: 5 April 1967

Last Amended: 27 April 2000

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1382657

English Heritage Legacy ID: 483041

ID on this website: 101382657

Location: Atherstone on Stour, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37

County: Warwickshire

District: Stratford-on-Avon

Civil Parish: Preston on Stour

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire

Church of England Parish: Atherstone St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Coventry

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description

PRESTON ON STOUR

SP25SW SHIPSTON ROAD (A 3400), Alscot Park
1912-1/2/149 (West side)
05/04/67 Lodges and gates to Alscot Park with
flanking ashlar walls
(Formerly Listed as:
PRESTON ON STOUR
Lodges at Alscot Park)

GV II

Pair of lodges flanking gates and gate piers with ashlar wall
to each side, stretching a total of 33.5m. c1750 by Phillips
and Shakespear for James West; gates of c1856 by George Clark.
Stucco with limestone ashlar dressings and pyramidal slate
roofs; cast-iron gates and limestone ashlar walls. Rococo
Gothic Style
EXTERIOR: small square lodges have canted angles and small
projections to outer sides; paired central gates with
octagonal piers with flanking single gates; flanking walls
curve outwards to octagonal end piers. Each lodge has impost
band and top cornice with crenellated parapet; front, inner
side and rear have pointed recesses; outer side has small
projection with pointed recess.
Front has ogee-headed window with grille and 3/6 sash with
intersecting top glazing bars, tiny cusped ogee outer windows;
inner side has entrance with 6-panelled door, 4 of the panels
fielded, remainder flush-panelled.
Rear has ogee-headed window as to front. Angles have
quatrefoil recesses. Tall round stacks with some enrichment.
Lodge to right has later lean-to outshut to outer side.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: enriched gates have armorial bearings and
crests, gate piers have caps, that to right retaining lantern.
Walls have plain coping and each has 2 square piers and an
octagonal end pier, all with caps.
(Victoria County Histories: Victoria History of the County of
Gloucestershire: 1968-: 81-89; Occasional Papers: Tyack G: The
Country Houses of Warwickshire 1800-1939: 1989-: 13).

Listing NGR: SP2118850677

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