East Lodges To Denton Park With Walls Flanking Drive To East

ASKWITH WEST LANE SE 14 NE (west side, off) 10/15 East Lodges to Denton Park with walls flanking drive to east 22.11.66 (formerly listed as Lodges to Denton Park) - II

Pair of lodges with gates and gate piers. Probably 1778, possibly by John Carr. Ashlar, graduated slate roofs to lodges, wrought-iron gates. Double gates with gate piers flanked by walls pierced by round-arched pedestrian gateways and octagonal single-storey lodges with low rubble walls attached. Gates: main gates of 2 leaves; bars with arrow-head finials, vertical and horizontal bands of squares within circles. Pedestrian gates similar. Gate piers: rusticated quoins, fluted band, entablature with paterae and cornice surmounted by festooned urns. The fluted band is carried over the pedestrian gateways at coping level and continues on an impost band to the lodges. Architrave to pedestrian gateways; round-headed sash windows with glazing bars to lodges, plain door in walls facing away from drive; blind window in rear, dentilled eaves cornice, pointed roofs with short chimney stack. Flanking walls to drive: approximately 1.2 metres high, with rounded coping stones, terminating in rusticated piers with shallow pyramidal finials close to present road-side.

Listing NGR: SE1554648423