Brighton And Preston Cemetery Entrance Lodge And Attached Walls

BRIGHTON

TQ3205NW HARTINGTON ROAD 577-1/23/340 (North side) Brighton and Preston Cemetery: entrance lodge and attached walls

GV II

Entrance lodge. Dated 1885 on chimneystack. Render with terracotta dressings, roof of tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement; the house is designed in the Old English style, with gabled wings of one-window range facing south and east, the porch in the angle between the 2, and another gabled wing under a catslide roof running north. Single-storey porch under a hipped roof with Tudor-arched doorcase of terracotta having a fanlight and sidelights; terracotta quoins, which stand proud of the render, to angles and window-dressings. The wing facing south has a canted bay to 2 storeys, the windows of which are flat-arched to the ground floor but with cusped mouldings to the first, the gable carried out over the bay with brackets to the sides on terracotta corbels, timberwork to the face of the gable and moulded barge-boards. The wing facing east has tripartite windows to the ground and first floor, the heads detailed as for the south wing, a bressumer carried on a corbel table, timberwork to the face of the gable and moulded barge-boards. Elaborately moulded multiple stack in roof running north. INTERIOR: not inspected. Dwarf walls and railings matching those in Hartington Road connect the lodge to the entrance gates (qv)

Listing NGR: TQ3247105555