Pair of Lodges with Attached Walls at N Entrance to Lanhydrock Park Lanhydrock, England

Listed Building Data

Pair of Lodges with Attached Walls at N Entrance to Lanhydrock Park has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1143096
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
15 April 1988
Name
PAIR OF LODGES WITH ATTACHED WALLS AT THE NORTH ENTRANCE TO LANHYDROCK PARK
Location
PAIR OF LODGES WITH ATTACHED WALLS AT THE NORTH ENTRANCE TO LANHYDROCK PARK
Parish
Lanhydrock
District
Cornwall
Grid Reference
SX 08839 64621
Easting
208839.0000
Northing
64621.0000

Listed Building Description

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LANHYDROCK LANHYDROCK PARK SX 06 SE 9/84 Pair of lodges with attached walls - at the north entrance to Lanhydrock Park

GV II*

Pair of lodges with attached flanking walls. Probably late C18, enlarged circa early-mid C19 with few later alterations. Granite ashlar and slatestone rubble. Hipped slate roofs. Stacks at the outer sides with rubble shafts. Plan: Originally a symmetrical pair of one-room plan lodges, with a gateway between; each lodge heated from a stack at the outer side, with the entrance at the inner side. In circa 1840, and addition of one-room plan was made to the outer side of each lodge, also heated from a stack at the outer side. The flanking walls are swept forward a short distance with terminal piers. Exterior: Each lodge is 2-storey, a symmetrical pair ; plinth and large recessed blind arch, with pilasters and imposts ; the pilasters and spandrels of the arch in ashlar, the rear in rubble masonry. At ground and first floor a 2-light casement with 4-centred arch, the casements with Y-tracery and relieving arch. Set back to each side, the smaller 2-storey additions, with similar 2-light casement at ground and first floor. The central gateway has engaged square plan granite pier at each side, inner pair of square granite piers with panels and pyramidal caps, about 1½ metres high. This forms a central carriage gateway, with a pedestrian gateway to each side with C20 wooden gates. At the outer side of each lodge, a short section of rubble wall is swept forward, with granite coping and square plan terminal piers in granite ashlar with pyramidal caps. The inner side of each lodge has 4-centred arched doorway with plank door and relieving arch ; first floor blind 4-centred arched window. At the rear, each lodge has the same 2-light casement at ground and first floor and 4-centred arched plank door. At the outer side of each lodge, a small single storey addition for service room, probably of late C19. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX0883964621