Rainborough Lodges And Gates

SE40SW BRAMPTON BIERLOW SMITHY BRIDGE LANE (south side)

2/3 Rainborough Lodges and gates

29.3.68 II*

Pair of lodges with attached gate piers and gate; forming one dwelling.1798- 1804. Attributed to John Carr (Wragg). For William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam. Ashlar sandstone; graduated Welsh slate roofs; wrought-iron gates. Symmetrical pair of square lodges with inner and outer wing walls and central carriage gateway. Lodges: 2 storeys, single window. Plinth, rusticated quoins to lower stage. Tall, central, round- headed sash with glazing bars; moulded impost and archivolt all set within recessed round-arched panel with Greek-key impost band and archivolt. Frieze with festooned paterae; modillioned cornice. Hipped roof, corniced central stack with paterae. Inner return of each lodge has panelled door in architrave with plain frieze and pediment, all set within a round-arched recess; 6-pane sash beneath archivolt. Inner wing walls each have iron gate in round-arched opening and terminate at rusticated piers with Greek-key band beneath frieze with swags and paterae. Cornice surmounted by affronted statues of lions couchant. Simple wrought-iron gates with paired horizontal rails; decorative scrollwork and central vase finial to top rail. Outer wing walls each have blind round-arched opening and terminate at rusticated end piers. Set on the line of a former avenue to Wentworth Park North Lodge (q.v.).

R. B. Wragg, 'The Life and Works of John Carr of York: Palladian Architect', unpublished thesis, 1975, University of Sheffield, vol 3, appendix A unpaginated.

Listing NGR: SE4075700616