Piers and Gates at East Lodge and Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 February 1975. Hall.
Piers and Gates at East Lodge and Flanking Walls
- WRENN ID
- dark-terrace-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1975
- Type
- Hall
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The structure consists of large octagonal gate piers made of dressed stone, set on plinths with moulded top edges. At the top of the gates, there is a frieze of blind quatrefoils between moulded bands. The piers narrow slightly above this point and feature two tiers of blind trefoil-headed arches. Each pier is topped with domed cap stones that have moulded tracery and scrolls, supporting lions couchant that face into the park. The gates themselves are double cast iron in a plain style, with the top rails curving elegantly towards the center and a single rail lock bar. Instead of dog rails, there is a frieze of diagonal crosses with a boss at the center of each cross.
Flanking the gate piers are iron screens on a low plinth with moulded coping. These screens display Gothic decoration below the top rails and a diamond frieze above, with Tudor rose finials, although the finials are missing from the northern section. The screens are accompanied by simpler octagonal piers that have flat cap stones with embattled tops. Snecked stone walls extend east from these piers to the lodges.
From the lodges, there is an extensive boundary wall for the park, which is particularly well preserved to the east and north. This wall is made of rubble dry-stone with narrow saddleback coping resting on projecting flat stones. In some areas, the coping is missing, and to the south along the A48, some sections have been rebuilt.
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