East Lodge At Main Entrance To Abbey Park is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1997. Lodge.
East Lodge At Main Entrance To Abbey Park
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-bonework-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- East Lodge At Main Entrance To Abbey Park, 2, Abbey Park Road, City of Leicester, LE4 5AQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 589 058
- Coordinates
- 52.64706, -1.13065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Lodge at the main entrance to Abbey Park is a lodge built in 1882, designed by James Tait. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features timber-framing. The building has plain tile hipped roofs and two reduced brick stacks.
The exterior is a single storey with attics. The park-facing front includes a projecting off-centre gabled wing with a three-light casement window, which is situated above jettied timber-framing that has a six-light casement window. To the left, there is a single-light casement window, followed by a single external stack. The north-west front features a central square bay window with a five-light transom and mullion window, flanked by single side lights. Above this is a five-light mullion window with single side lights, topped with battlements. To the left, there is a set-back corner porch with a segment arched doorway that has a panelled door. The street front has a central projecting square bay with a three-light window, and above it, there is a timber-framed upper floor with five single-light casement windows, each with pargetting panels above. The interior has not been inspected.
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