Chedgrave Gate To Langley Gate

TM 39 NE 6/5 5.9.60

CHEDGRAVE NORWICH ROAD (north side) Chedgrave Gate to Langley Park (formerly listed as Chedgrave Lodges to Langley Hall)

II

Pair of entrance lodges and gates c1784 by Sir John Soane, restored 1980. Gault brick with limestone dressings and Coade stone decoration; roofs concealed by eaves parapet. Symmetrical design and with one-storey lodges flanking a central arched gateway. To the south, the lodges each have a central recessed sash window with glazing bars under a semicircular arched head. Blind balust- rade of seven bays below cill level. Moulded stone plinth and parapet. Above the window openings, on the parapet coping, a figure of a greyhound rampant, supporting an heraldic shield; on the base, the motto TOUJOURS FIDELE. Blind semicircular headed recesses in east and west walls. On the north side two centrally placed half-glazed entrance doors with glazing bars and semicircular headed fanlights. Central semicircular arched gateway with cornice of mutules surmounted by shaped pediment. Two chimney finials in the form of pedestals with twisted fluting. Coade stone medallions in arch spandrels. Pair of gates with square uprights with gilded spearhead finials, double lock rail and inter- mediate uprights to form dog guard. Gate tops swept to reflect line of arch above. Attached red brick boundary wall to south-west with saddleback coping.

Listing NGR: TM3524999414