West Gate Lodge To Dalham Hall With Gates Piers And Walling

TL 76 SW DALHAM ASHLEY ROAD

6/1 West Gate Lodge 27.1.72 to Dalham Hall, with gates, piers and walling. (Formerly listed as Lodge and Entrance gates under Dalham Hall) II

Gate lodge and gates to the Dalham Hall Estate, c.1900. In the Queen Anne Revival Style. Gate lodge of one storey, irregular plan. Red brick with lighter red quoins, bands of plaintiles, the tiles set in herringbone fashion; limestone block quoins. All bricks are narrow (about 5cm). Plaintiled roofs, hipped but with a gable at the entrance; central chimney of 4 tall attached square flues, red brick with limestone bands and moulded caps. Small-pane casements, some with hinged panelled shutters, under flat arches of gauged brick and limestone; beneath the cill a raised apron. Fine prominent entrance doorway of limestone: shouldered architrave; scrolled pediment on carved console brackets; in the pediment is a carved coat of arms in relief. Pair of entrance doors, each having 4 fielded panels. A pair of wrought iron carriage gates on heavy piers of red brick with limestone banding and a moulded limestone base and capping. On either side a pedestrian gateway and another pier. Over the gateway is a brick arch with gabled limestone coping. On either flank is an elliptical screen wall of red brick with bands of herringbone plaintiling, moulded limestone coping and terminal pier. All piers are surmounted by a statue of a mythical creature. Central in the screen walls is a niche with a circular head of gauged brick, sunk within a square frame.

Listing NGR: TL7128262878