Number 192 With Attached Railings And Gate Piers Porter Lodge

SOWERBY BRIDGE ROCHDALE ROAD SE 0422 and SE 0522 (west side) , Triangle 15/201 Nos 190 (Porter Lodge) and No 192 with attached railings and gate piers. - GV II

Pair of gate lodges with gateway to Field House. Dated '1749 rebuilt 1874'. Ashlar, Welsh slate roofs, cast-iron railings. Single-storey, 3 x 1 bay lodges, gable-on to road, flank gate piers with side railings linking them to lodges. Piers, square in section, each have a plinth with moulded top, shaft with fluted band and festoon frieze to each face, moulded cornice, urn on coved corniced fluted base and with swags and flame finial. The railings have curved tops, spiked bars and urn-finialed standards. The lodges, originally identical, each have to inner 3-bay elevation: central pedimented bay set forward flanked by pilasters and having 4-panel door with overlight in architrave with dated frieze and cornice; 4-pane sashes in similar architraves; entablature with fluted frieze and dentil cornice; oculus in pediment containing white glass with lion's head and flanked by leaf scrolls; hipped roof; stepped dentil-corniced stack to rear of roadside bay and other end. Rear of each lodge has central pediment with arched light flanked by square lights and with deep moulded cornice. Roadside return of each has: plinth, raised central panel with 4-pane sash in architrave with frieze and cornice; entablature returned from inner elevation and pediment with lion crest and motto 'Know Thyself'. The gate piers are identical to those approximately 70 metres to east of Field House, Dean Lane (qv).

Listing NGR: SE0472622600