Gateway To North-West Of Chester Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. Gateway.
Gateway To North-West Of Chester Lodge
- WRENN ID
- silent-column-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Gateway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BOURNMOOR CHESTER ROAD NZ 25 SE 285523 (North side, off) 4/2 Gateway to north- west of Chester Lodge GV II
Arched gateway, walls, end piers and gates. 1815 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham. Walls extended in mid C19. Ashlar sandstone. Classical style.
Tall imposing gateway: semicircular arch, with archivolt and corniced imposts, framed by Tuscan pilasters; entablature has frieze with raised oblong panel in moulded surround flanked by carved stone rams' heads (Lambton insignia); blocking course breaks forward at ends. Flanking lower piers each with raised fielded panel, cornice and enriched S-scroll bracket. Pair of tall iron gates have close-set bars and dogbars with spike finials; each leaf has narrow margin of small cross-braced panels.
1.75-metre high convex quadrant walls, flanking gateway, have plinths and chamfered copings. Extension walls with flat coping run to square-plan end piers with low pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: NZ2848452315
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