Lodges And Gateway About 1,050 Metres North West Of Thame Park

THAME SP70SW THAME PARK ROAD, Thame Park 1707-0/4/10003 Lodges and Gateway about 1, 050 metres north west of Thame Park

II Gateway screen at entrance to park. Circa 1830 with C20 additions. Rendered red brick with freestone dressings. Screen wall of seven bays, the central one taller and with large 4-centred carriage arch, the fourth bay has similar but smaller pedestrian gateway, both double-chamfered and with cast-iron Gothic gates. Castellated Gothick style with battlements to end piers and the taller central bay; buttresses between bays supporting block finials with quatrefoils, and cruciform false loops on the carriage arch piers. Large buttresses to these piers on the inner sides are C20, of concrete blocks over steel shores. Two lodges with coped parapets are attached to either side and are ruinous; they might be later, but also of rendered brick; the southern one has a four-panel door with studded planted chamfer to the panels. Source: Buildings of England, page 812.

Listing NGR: SP7096604492