North Lodge To Milner Field And Attached Gatepiers

SE 13 NW, SE 1213 89; 6/162

BINGLEY, GILSTEAD, Primrose Lane (east side), North Lodge to Milner Field and attached gate-piers

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Lodge and attached gate piers and flanking walls to Milner Field (demolished). 1871-3 by T. Harris for Titus Salt Junior. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh blue-slate roofs. Lodge: Two storeys and attics. Asymmetrical with gabled wing to left, and slightly set back at right-angles hall range surmounted by broached turret with conical roof coupled to pitched gable of hall range with prominent stack with offsets. All windows have square heads with lintels and sills and composite jambs. Flat- roofed single-storey bay projects to front, 2-light window to first floor with corbel table over supporting attic gable which slightly projects. Chamfered window in gable which is coped with kneelers. Hall range has doorway to right of window with arrow slits to first-floor turret. Corbel table to jettied gable of right-hand return wall.

Ashlar gate-piers have offsets to front and sides terminating in gabled capstones with band with Gothic trefoil-headed insets.

The Builder,15 March 1873. D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), p. 87.

Listing NGR: SE1215038920