South Lodge And Attached Gatepiers

SE44NW BOSTON SPA MOOR END (Al) ROUNDABOUT) LS23 (west end)

2/86 South Lodge and 17.12.86 attached gatepiers

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Lodge with attached wall and gatepiers. Early Cl9; gatepiers probably late C18, altered. For the Wetherby Grange estate. Ashlar sandstone, concealed Welsh slate roof; magnesian limestone gatepiers. Single-storey 3 x 1 bay lodge with additional bay on right and projecting wall on right which links to gatepiers. Lodge: channel-rusticated plinth; central bay projects and has stylobate of 4 half-round steps to a Doric distyle in antis semicircular portico within which is a glazed door with side-lights in moulded architrave. Flanking bays each have a recessed panel containing 16-pane sash in architrave on sill blocks. Plain frieze and moulded cornice beneath balustrade with ashlar dies and turned wooden balusters. Corniced end stack on right. Left return: as front bay 1 but with blind window. Plain addition to front-right of lodge links to a rusticated gatepier with teardrop finial and to larger rusticated gatepiers with bands and panelled blocks above which are resited sandstone pedestals to carved oak-leaf wreaths from each of which rises a bear's paw grasping a severed human hand. The gatepiers have wing walls each with a blind door recess, wing wall on right has end pier with teardrop finial then curves around towards Al embankment. Old iron gates in very poor condition. The lodge matches that surviving incomplete at south end of Boston Road, Wetherby (q.v.). Wall and gatepiers included for group value only. Additions to rear of lodge are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE4102345775