Gateway, Lodge And Adjoining Office At Salford Northern Cemetery

SWINTON & PENDLEBURY LANGLEY ROAD SD 80 SW (east side) 3/12 Gateway,lodge and adjoining office at Salford Northern - Cemetery G.V. II

Gateway, lodge and office. Stone records opening in 1903. By Sharpe & Foster. Snecked stone, ashlar dressings, clay tile roof and applied timber-framing to lodge. Gateway with pedestrian entrances to either side has 1-storey offices to left and 2-storey lodge to right. Free Gothic. The gateway and pedestrian entrances have pointed arches and a carved lion and unicorn above the central arch are superimposed by blind arcading. Cast-iron gates. Bold conically roofed finial at centre. The 2-bay house has a square 5-light mullion and transom bay window below a jettied first floor in bay 1. 3-light casements in bay 2 and 5-light first floor casements. Each bay is gabled and has pierced bargeboards. Side-wall chimney stacks. 4-bay offices with 6-light mullion and transom square bay to left which has a blind basket-arched upper stage and a castellated parapet. Cusped openings in bays 2 and 4 with continuous sill band. Commemorative plaque in bay 3 below an ogee arch. Coped parapet and gable. Gable chimney stack. Gabled dormer window. Decorative foiled panelling to rear of house.

Listing NGR: SD8059901516