North Lodge With Linking Gates And Gate Piers

HODNET C.P. NORTH PARK SJ 53 SE 1/79 North Lodge with linking - gates and gate piers

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Pair of entrance lodges with attached gates and gate piers. Late C18 with mid-C20 alterations. Grey sandstone ashlar, partly painted. Roof not visible behind parapet. Pair of small square lodges flanking gates and gate piers. 2 storeys. Each lodge with plinth, corner piers with moulded plinths, moulded cornice and parapet with moulded coping. Round-arched recesses to north and south with fluted impost band and moulded architrave. Round-arched glazing bar sash to south. 2-bay inner returns with first-floor 3-light wooden casements, 4-panelled door to south (lower 2 flush) and blind doorway to north. Rear of western lodge with one-storey lean-to and integral lateral brick stack. Eastern lodge with C20 alterations including raised parapet, cornice broken by C20 casements, and large 2-storey addition at rear. Central wooden carriage gate flanked by smaller wooden pedestrian gates. Square stone gate piers, and half piers attached to lodges, each with moulded plinth, fluted frieze and pyramidal cap. Interiors not inspected. These were formerly the north entrance lodges to Hawkstone Hall (q.v.). Lodges are shown in this location on an estate map of c.1795. North Lodge is the address of the two lodge buildings. Shropshire County Records Office, 4133/2.

Listing NGR: SJ5844631157