Newton Lodge (Entrance To Beningbrough Park)

SE 55 NW 4/18

NEWTON-ON-OUSE CHERRY AVENUE (south end) Newton Lodge (entrance to Beningbrough Park)

GV II

Entrance archway with gates, lodges and flanking wall. Late C18, gates mid C19. Possibly by James Wyatt. For Margaret and Gilbert Bourchier. Ashlar, cast-iron railings. Pedimented round-headed archway flanked by lower, single- storey, 1-bay lodges and recessed wall. Archway: surround breaks forward with plinth and impost band continuing as cornice to lodges. Archivolt with keystone head and sunken flowers in spandrels. Corniced pediment with laurel wreath in typanum. Ridge stack. Gates are ramped with spear-headed finials to bars, arrow-finials and pendants to dog bars, and circles forming bottom dog-bar and top rails. Lodges each have one 12-pane sash, 6-panel doors to inner returns, angle pilasters and a continuous plinth, cornice and blocking course. Low coped flanking walls have taller plain piers with capstones at each end and support railings with spear-headed finials. The archway is identical in design and dimensions to that at the entrance to Thirkleby Hall, near Thirsk, built to designs of James Wyatt c1780 (Price and Ruffhead, p78). S Price and G Ruffhead (eds), Three Yorkshire Villages, 1973.

Listing NGR: SE5122059603