East Lodge and attached forecourt wall

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SK59NE 5/72

WADWORTH WADWORTH East Lodge and attached forecourt wall

(Formerly listed as part of Wadworth Hall Entrance Lodges).

5.6.68

GV ll*

Entrance lodge with attached wall. c1750. By James Paine for Josias Wordsworth. Ashlar magnesian limestone, graduated Westmorland slate roof. Two storeys, three x one bays; set as a pavilion facing West Lodge (q.v.) across the entrance to Wadworth Hall (q.v.); attached wall with gateway lines east side of forecourt to the hall.

Lodge: plinth; round-arched arcading with openings to each floor within recessed panels. Central doorway with C20 door and four-pane overlight in architrave with rusticated surround and double keystone breaking into pediment. Flanking 24-pane sashes with double keystones, that to right formerly altered into a doorway and now with panelling below the sash. First floor: impost band beneath unequally-hung 12-pane sashes; voussoirs aligned with courses. Eaves cornice forms gutter to hipped roof with rendered ridge stack on right. Right return: round-arched recess with Venetian window having blind side lights to a 24-pane sash.

Forecourt wall (set back, to front left): near lodge is a doorway in raised panel with cornice; copings sweep down to lower section of wall on left which links with wing walls of hall.

M. Girouard, 'Wadworth Hall, Yorkshire', Country Life, September 1st, 1966 pp 494-498.

Listing NGR: SK5672697202