Borough Cemetery Gate House And Attached Railings

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SD17SE DEVONSHIRE ROAD 708-1/3/41 (North side) Borough Cemetery gatehouse and attached railings

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Cemetery gatehouse with attached railings. Dated 1874. By Paley and Austin (plan), altered. Coursed limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay centre with 1-storey, 2-window office in side wing on left and 2-storey lodge on right of same width but with wing to rear; attached railings are set in quadrants to each side and return to line pavement. Romanesque. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Tall central carriage arch recessed between pedestrian side gates: each opening has keeled arches of 2 orders linked by impost string course; original iron gates. 2 bands and 1st floor sill band beneath blind arcading with taller central window; outer bays have larger windows in 2-order arches. Band beneath parapet with triangular copings built up in 2 courses. Hipped roof with a multiple-flue ashlar stack to each end; terracotta ridge cresting. Office wing on left: buttress against left return; paired windows with colonnettes and impost string course; coped end gable. Lodge on right: similar but taller, no 1st floor windows to front. Rear: 2 dated rain-water heads; office has shallow, canted bay-window. Ribbed vaulting within the archway, 2-bay arcades and barrel vaults to each side. Railings: panels are fixed between sandstone piers rising from dwarf walls; the railings have square bars, twin top rails and finials of 2 heights. Surviving drawings dated November 1873 show a central bell tower with spire; this and some other architectural details (shafts, mouldings) have since been removed. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: NO.520).

Listing NGR: SD1999070734