North entrance lodges, with flanking walls and central link building at Bristol Zoo

Entrance lodges to Bristol Zoological Gardens, built in 1836, with associated flanking walls and railings. The link building between the two lodges was designed by CFW Dening and added in 1934. Late C20 and early C21 alterations. The extensions to south side of the link building and the west lodge are not included in the listing.

MATERIALS: constructed of limestone ashlar with hipped and gabled roofs covered in slate tiles. The stacks are of limestone with clay pots. Timber sash windows.

PLAN: two, single-storey, pavilion lodges with a Greek cruciform plan and connected by a single-storey linear link building.

DETAILS: designed in a neoclassical style, each lodge has overhanging eaves and is articulated by its cruciform plan with Doric pilasters emphasising the corners. The north elevation has a central pediment with a dentilled cornice and a six-over-six sash window, with subsidiary two-over-two sash windows with margin lights. The windows are set within recessed plain surrounds. The setback link building is of three bays with Doric piers supporting an entablature with a frieze of animal silhouettes over the wider outer bays. The central pedimented bay is slightly set forward and has an iron gate featuring rosettes and fluted verticals, and blocked octagonal openings to its side elevations. The doors to the inner elevations of the lodges have consoles supporting triangular-shaped pediments, with further door and window openings to the side elevations. The rear elevation of the east lodge has a wide central bay with a triangular pediment over an arrangement of a six-over-six sash window flanked by six-over-nine sash windows. The openings to the side and rear elevation of the west lodge have been modified and the original doors and windows removed.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: flanking walls of coursed carboniferous limestone with flat coping stones, surmounted by cast iron railings with fluted verticals and a frieze of rosettes set in square panels.