Entrance Lodge And Gates To Sutton Place

TQ 05SW GUILDFORD LONDON ROAD (North Side) Burpham

2/136 Entrance Lodge and 13/1/72 gates to Sutton Place (Formerly listed as the East Lodges of Sutton Place) II Lodge pair with gates between. Circa 1530, remodelled in C18 with C19 gates and alterations. Red brick with stone plinths and terracotta dressings, hipped plain- tiled roofs and wrought-iron gates between. Two rectangular lodges end-on to road and placed approximately 8 metres apart with paired gates between connected to lodges by quadrant shaped lengths of railings. Each lodge 2 storeys with stone string course over the ground floor and stone-coped, battlemented parapets. Stacks to rear. Leaded casement fenestration with one 2-light window with arched head under label moulding on first floor of end walls facing street. South-east front of each lodge has 2 narrow,round-headed arches of arcading on the ground floor and a higher panel between. Planked door to centre of each lodge facing each other across drive. Paired iron gates between lodges decorated with diamond panels and hung on two octagonal brick and terracotta piers with battlemented tops. Quadrant sections of railings to each side linking to lodges have plain bars set into brick plinth. Wall approximately 1½ metres high. For description of Sutton Place see Woking B.C.: Sutton Place, Sutton Park.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) PP 476-9.

Listing NGR: TQ0225653000