Needham Lodge And Attached Screen Walls Pavilions

CODDENHAM NORWICH ROAD TM 15 SW 7/38 Nos. 1 and 2, Needham - Lodge, and attached screen walls and pavilions - II

Pair of gatelodges at mouth of west entrance drive to Shrubland Park. Circa 1870, for Sir W.F. Middleton, Bart. In the Italianate manner. A central carriage gateway is surmounted by an Italianate tower and flanked by a pair of single-storey lodges. Gault brick with heavily rusticated quoins. Deeply oversailing Roman pantiled roofs with heavy widely-spaced modillions. Rear chimneys of gault brick. Each lodge has a small-pane sash window with broad limestone frame and cornice. The central archway has a limestone arch with giant voussoirs: the keystone is delicately carved with the Middleton coat of arms. A pair of wrought iron gates with scrolled ornament at the head of each. Over the gateway is a gabled roof; and set back is the square tower, with twin recessed open arches on columns at each face; shallow pryamid roof. Semi-elliptical screen walls of gault brick about 2.5m high are attached to either flank; limestone copings and piers behind, expressed by block quoins. Each screen is terminated by a solid square pavilion about 3.5m high: gault brick with block quoins; a coved niche is lined with ashlar stonework; pyramidal Roman pantiled roof with a limestone eaves cornice and a ball finial.

Listing NGR: TM1102754171