Eagle Lodge And Adjoining Gatepier To Estcourt Park, Including Quadrant Walls And Perimeter Wall To End Piers

SHIPTON MOYNE - ST 89 SE 7/153 Eagle Lodge and adjoining gatepiers to Estcourt Park, including quadrant walls and perimeter wall to end piers II

Lodge and gatepiers and adjoining walling. Probably 1860s by T.H. Wyatt. Coursed rubble stone, stone slate roof with coped verges and saddlestones, 2 large stone stacks. T-shape range of single storey and attic with projecting gabled range towards gatepiers and cross gabled wing at top of T, with additional gabled porch with open chamfered segmental pointed arches to each face linking with pier plinth. Fenestration all glazing bar casements in chamfered reveals. Small gable to front of projecting gabled wing over single-storey canted bay. Porch has original large vertical battened inner door. Pair of square gatepiers to right in coursed stone with chamfered plinth, offset and plain cornice, both surmounted by sculptured figure of eagle, the whole about 2m high. Between and to left are gates and fencing in bolted square grid pattern, the latter on low moulded plinth attached to porch. Similar fencing probably originally existed immediately to right, now disappeared, but second pair of lower square piers with shallow pyramidal caps survive to far right with similar single pedestrian gate. Flanking quadrant coursed walls and section of estate wall, punctuated by and ending at similar smaller piers.

Listing NGR: ST8890090296