West Lodge And Attached Screen Wall And Memorial In Albert Park

MIDDLESBROUGH PARK ROAD. NZ 41 NE (4919) 3/63 West Lodge and attached screen wall 28.1.83 and memorial in Albert Park G.V. II Park Lodge, wall and memorial, at principal entrance to Albert Park, 1866 by C.J. Adams (Stockton and London). Red brick, with blue brick and sandstone dressings. Welsh and Lakeland slate roofs with pierced iron ridge crestings and finials. Asymmetrical; incorporating Gothic and classical detailing. 1½ storeys, 2 bays. Double-chamfered plinth. 3 steps up to right 4-panel door in segment-headed, hollow-chamfered surround under plaque with arms of Middlesbrough Corporation. Below eaves, moulded brick corbelled frieze, continued on returns. Projecting left gabled cross wing has stone one-storey canted bay window whose octagonal pilasters, with individually-carved foliate capitals, frame trefoil-headed sashes under chamfered round heads. Angle water shoots on foliate brackets, below bracketed battered parapet with wrought iron cresting. Battered sills. Pair of segment-headed first-floor sash windows, in hollow-chamfered surrounds, under plaque with arms of H.W.F. Bolckow, in gable. Chamfered gable coping and gabled kneelers. Steeply-pitched hipped and gabled roofs with bands of shaped slates and embattled transverse ridge stacks. Gabled wall monument in screen wall adjoining right; bronze tablet records: "THIS PARK WAS PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE OF MIDDLESBROUGH BY HENRY WILLIAM FERDINAND BOLCKOW. OPENED BY PRINCE ARTHUR IN 1868 ......"; erected 1901. Gabled red sandstone monument, right of screen wall, carries original worn (1868) dedication of Park on reverse side. Front has niche, under carved foliate band, to house bust of Bolckow, with brass plate below, both now missing; bust now in Dorman Memorial Museum. 2-bay left return with similar windows. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with turned balusters and chamfered square newels. Panelled doors in moulded surrounds. Disused and dilapidated at time of resurvey. Mid C20 one-storey north-west extension not of special interest. Included for historical associations.

Listing NGR: NZ4923319089