The Lodge To Fanhams Hall

TL 31NE 2/33

WARE RURAL FANHAMS HALL ROAD (north side) The Lodge to Fanhams Hall

GV II

Gatehouse with wing walls. 1901. By W Wood Bethell for Richard Benyon Croft. Roughcast with limestone dressings and steep red tiled roofs. Ashlar wing walls. Gatehouse at main entrance. 3- storeys square pyramid roofed towers flank the 2-storeys centre with large semi-circular archway in moulded stonework with ogee moulded label topped bv carved Fleur-de-lis. Towers project each side and have ashlar plinth, quoins, moulded eaves cornice, and stone framed mullioned windows on 3 floors. Tall external chimney on outer side of each tower with tabled offsets and tall stone shaft of 4 joined octagonal shafts. Projecting in a double curve and stepping down slightly there is a high stone wall to each side. This has a moulded cornice, chamfered plinth, and terminates in a tall rusticated pier with ball finial. Decorative wrought iron gates in Arts and Crafts Style.

Listing NGR: TL3726515480