Entrance Portal And Lodges To Former White City Greyhound Track is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1987. Entrance portal. 1 related planning application.
Entrance Portal And Lodges To Former White City Greyhound Track
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gravel-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1987
- Type
- Entrance portal
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STRETFORD CHESTER ROAD SJ 89 NW (south-east side) (sJ 8196 SW) 3/16 Entrance portal and lodges to former White City - greyhound track - II Entrance portal and lodges. 1828. Ashlar, now painted, with cast-iron gates. Double vehicular gates flanked by pedestrian doorways and 2-storey lodges.In a grand classical manner. Elaborate double cast-iron gates below a semi- circular keystone arch flanked by freestanding paired unfluted Ionic columns. The doorways also have cast-iron gates and blind recesses above. 2-storeyed lodges to either side with attached giant columns in antis and 12-pane sash windows on each floor. A bold entablature and blocking course continues across the entire composition breaking forward above the freestanding columns. The portal was originally the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.
Listing NGR: SJ8125496226
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