Boringdon Arch (Triumphal Arch) And Triumphal Arch Cottage And Outbuilding

PLYMOUTH

SX55NW PLYMBRIDGE ROAD, Plympton, Boringdon 740-1/6/534 Boringdon Arch (Triumphal Arch) & 01/05/75 Triumphal Arch Cottage & Outbuilding to E

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Triumphal arch and attached buildings. Late C18, probably the arch built in 1783 for John Parker of Saltram House, Merafield Road (qv) as an eye-catcher to be seen from the house and based on a design by Robert Adam. Red brick with stucco surviving to the screen wall left of the arch, and some stone dressings. Wide arch with flanking screen walls plus a small lodge built behind the left-hand screen wall and a lean-to behind the other screen wall. Tall round arch with projecting keystone flanked by paired pilasters and the whole surmounted by a Doric entablature and a parapet with moulded cornice and a central niche. The arch is flanked by lower screen walls with end pilasters and with pilastered window openings with entablature (now blocked). Lodge is now roofless and has blocked window openings; brick stack to the gable end.

Listing NGR: SX5278757795