West Lodge And Screen Walls To Cave Castle

SOUTH CAVE CHURCH HILL SE 93 SW (east side) 2/36 West Lodge and screen walls to Cave Castle GV II Lodge and screen walls to Cave Castle. c1870. Yellow brick with stone dressings, concealed roofs. Gothic Revival style. Irregular plan: carriage gateway flanked by single square tower with pedestrian gate to right and 2 similar towers, joined by a smaller, taller turret, to left. Screen walls to right and left. 4-centred arch with false machicolations and crenellated parapet over pair of gates with scrolled rails and spiked bars. Of the 2 left towers, the right has 3-light casement windows under hoodmoulds to the ground and first floors: between is a square panel bearing the coat of arms of the Barnard family. The left tower is similarly treated, without a coat of arms. The connecting turret is recessed and has a single-light window under a hoodmould to first floor and gun loop over. Dentilled cornices and crenellated parapets to all towers. Concealed stack within connecting tower. To the right the tower has a 4-centred pedestrian passage, flanked by attached semi-octagonal turrets, below a crenellated parapet. Above, tower is recessed and has a panel with a coat of arms beneath a false gun loop. Dentilled cornice, crenellated parapet. Crenellated screen walls terminate in square abutments with low pyramidal caps: 2 false gun loops to each side.

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