Gates And Gate Piers, Cemetery, Lasswade is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1997. Cemetery lodge.
Gates And Gate Piers, Cemetery, Lasswade
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-landing-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1997
- Type
- Cemetery lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Early 20th century. Walls enclosing hillside cemetery, extending SE and W with gates, quadrant walls and flanking square plan lodges. Bull-faced and snecked pink and cream sandstone. Raised cills to lodge windows; keystones, breaking eaves course; raised, banded quoins to lodges; ashlar cope to walls.
GATEPIERS AND GATES: tapered, banded, square-plan gatepiers to centre of arrangement; ashlar plinth-and-pyramid cap. Decorative wrought-iron gates with flower motif to each upper section. Gatepiers linked by stepped quadrant walls to piers flanking lodges. Walls extending uphill to NE and downhill to S.
LODGES: Outer walls advancing slightly through boundary walls towards road. Windows set high to road elevations. Deep-set, boarded doors to gate-facing elevations. Window set high to boundary-facing elevations. Advanced, full-height wallhead stack to cemetery-facing elevation of lodge to SE.
9-pane, fixed windows; swept, grey slate pyramidal roofs with double- ended finials; ashlar coped stack to rear of S lodge; cast-iron rainwater goods.
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