Two Lodges And Attached Garden Walls Opposite Former Kings Weston Stables

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ST5477 NAPIER MILES ROAD, Shirehampton 901-1/24/1755 (North West side) 08/01/59 Two lodges and attached garden walls opposite former Kings Weston stables (Formerly Listed as: NAPIER MILES ROAD (South side) Two lodges and walling round pond opposite Kings Weston Police Station)

GV II*

Lodges, pond and garden walls. 1763. By Robert Mylne. Limestone ashlar and rubble, lateral stacks and slate roof, with brick walls. Symmetrical plan of a central square pond surrounded by garden wall, and flanked by square lodges. Lodges are 2 storeys; 3-window range. Pedimented ashlar lodges, blind to the road, with sash windows and door from the garden; tall brick garden walls ramped up over ashlar semicircular arches to the sides and middle of the back wall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached flanking rubble walls to the road extend approx 50m NE and SW from each lodge, with central gateways, the right-hand one blocked, left-hand one has steel spear-headed gates, with capped ashlar piers, and piers at each end, that at the SW end with a ball finial. Brick walls extend back from the road enclosing rectangular gardens. The walls originally enclosed the kitchen garden of Kings Weston House (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5436377605