Stone Gate Lodge

FONTHILL GIFFORD FONTHILL ABBEY WOOD ST 93 SW (west side)

1/90 Stone Gate Lodge

GV II

Lodge at entrance to Great Western Avenue of Old Fonthill Abbey. 1860 on datestone, for the Marquess of Westminster. English bond red brick with yellow brick banded decoration and dressings, gabled tiled roof, diagonally-set brick stacks. Cross plan with gabled wings. Single storey and attic, one window to each wing. Gabled timber and brick porch with planked door in angle between two wings, wing to right has 3-light canted bay with casements to ground floor, heraldic arms and date on carved stone tablet over. Wing to left has small 2-light bay with blocked arrow loop over, left return has lean-to extensions and polygonal projecting bread oven with tiled roof, gabled dormer to attic. Roof on deep eaves and gables with moulded barge boards. Interior not inspected. One of a pair of lodges to Fonthill Abbey Wood, the other being West Gate Lodge (q.v. West Tisbury), for the Marquess of Westminster following the building of Fonthill Abbey by William Burn 1846-52. Probably built on or near the site of William Beckford's main entrance to Old Fonthill Abbey. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST9094730660