South Lodge and attached gate piers

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TL 66 SE 5/77

NEWMARKET (including EXNING) DUCHESS DRIVE No 1 (South Lodge) and attached gate piers

(Formerly listed as CENTRE DRIVE (including EXNING) No 1 North Lodge and attached gate piers)

GV II

One of a pair of gatelodge cottages to Cheveley Park, late C19.

Irregular cruciform plan; one storey. In the Queen Anne Revival Style. Red brick, with Flemish gables at each of four arms, moulded brick eaves cornice and limestone string at window cill one level ; in two of the four gables an achievement in finely carved brick. Plaintiled roofs with axial chimney of red brick. Two gables have a splayed bay with hipped plaintiled roof and small-pane casements. Recessed entrance porch with segmental arched head of gauged brick having carved spandrils, a flat lead-roofed canopy on prominent and richly-carved wooden console brackets.

Linked by short brick walls to the cottage and to each other on the south-west side are a pair of 2.5m high banded square gate piers of finely gauded red brick; each has a moulded capping of limestone, one retaining its ball finial.

Listing NGR: TL6539362962