Gate Lodge To Harris Orphanage With Associated Gate Piers And Gates

SD 53 SW FULWOOD GARSTANG ROAD

7/30 Gate Lodge to Harris Orphanage, with associated Gate piers and gates (formerly listed with "The Harris Children's Home") 15.1.1985 GV II

Lodge and gateway to Harris Orphanage, 1885-88, by Benjamin Sykes of Garlick, Park, and Sykes,for the trustees of E.R. Harris. Accrington red brick with sandstone dressings, Cumberland slate roof. Vernacular Revival style. T-plan, single storey: to drive, a prominent gabled wing with canted bay window and small square flanking windows under oversailing gable of applied black and white studding with pargeted apex displaying a shield lettered A.D.; 1887 in left angle a lean-to porch, to the road another gable decorated like the first; on the ridge near the junction a tall Tudor-style triple chimney stack with moulded cap. Gate piers: 4 inner, making carriage gateway flanked by pedestrian gates, and 2 outer, all red brick heavily-banded with sandstone; square section, c.3 metres high, with hemispherical tops, the innermost bearing ornamental iron lampholders. Iron spear-railing gates.

Listing NGR: SD5318532272