Entrance Gateway And Flanking Lodges To Former Britannia Iron Works is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. Gateway, lodge. 7 related planning applications.
Entrance Gateway And Flanking Lodges To Former Britannia Iron Works
- WRENN ID
- patient-rood-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gateway, lodge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 0449 1/128
KEMPSTON ROAD Entrance gateway and flanking lodges to former Britannia Iron Works
II
Entrance gateway. 1857-9 by Robert Palgrave. Red brick with Portland stone dressings. Italianate style. Wooden gates with decorative ironwork framed by rusticated stone jambs and keyed stone semi-circular arch with raised lettering and circular spandrels; dentilled imposts continued across raised brick piers which have alternate stone quoining to lower stages and keyed semi-circular arched Italinate lights to upper stage; bracketed cornice beneath parapet with keyed stone round windows and surmounted by stone dock cupola with fish-scale slates to domed roof. Flanking lodges, each of one bay, have paired Italinate 2-light windows and dentilled cornices continued from imposts of gateway; brick end stacks with stone cornice. History: the Britannia Iron Works were founded by James and Frederick Howard in order to manufacture agricultural machinery, especially ploughs.
Listing NGR: TL0465149059
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