Chester Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Gate lodge.
Chester Lodge
- WRENN ID
- open-railing-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BOURNMOOR CHESTER ROAD NZ 25 SE 285523 (North side, off) 4/3 Chester Lodge GV II
Gate lodge. 1815 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham; mid C19 rear wing. Ashlar sandstone; dressed stone rear wing. Graduated green slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. Originally T-plan with C19 wing added at right-angles on right rear.
Single-storey, wide 2-bay front. Entrance via small square-plan porch set back on right return. Porch has 2-leaf door under segmental head. Main block has tall plinth coped by sill string. Wide canted left bay with 3 windows; right bay with 2 windows. All replaced sashes in segmental-headed openings with stepped square-cut reveals. Moulded eaves band. Projecting bay on left with C20 French windows. Low-pitched roof hipped over canted bay and right return. 2 low ridge stacks with ornamental C19 chimney-pots. Long single- storey C19 wing on rear has hipped roof.
Included for group value. C20 rear addition not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2849652306
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