East Lodges, With Gates, Gate-Piers And Railings

SE 24 NW 4/10 22.11.66

FARNLEY LEATHLEY TO FARNLEY ROAD (west side, off) East Lodges, with gates, gate-piers and railings (Formerly listed as East Lodges, Farnley Hall)

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Lodges, railings, gate-piers and gates. Late C18 with C19 addition. Ashlar with Westmorland slate roofs. 2 lodges: square plan, single storey, one bay each. South walls have sash with glazing bars in moulded architrave. Roll moulded string. Dentilled cornice returned and to pedimented gable, corniced ridge stack. C20 glazed door in moulded architrave facing onto driveway from each lodge. Lower, 2-storey, 2-bay addition to right of lodge to right. Gate-piers: ashlar. Square in section, approximately 5 metres high. Chamfered plinth carries single solid block forming gate-pier. Roll- moulded string and deep dentilled cornice as lodges, stepped cap with eagle sculpture. Lodges and piers linked by low ashlar wall carrying railings approximately 2 metres high with spear-head-finialed bars and roundels in top and bottom rails. Gates: double-leaved with dog-bars, base rail with fleur de lis and roundels. Lock rail and top rail of roundels, and spear- head finials to bars. The East Lodge belongs to Farnley Hall (qv) and is reputed to have been designed by J M W Turner who frequently stayed at the Hall as a guest of Walter Fawkes (d 1825). Among the collection of paintings by Turner is a fine picture of the Lodges, with Farnley Hall in the background.

Listing NGR: SE2224547038