Description

ST 98 NW CHARLTON CHARLTON PARK

5/24 South Lodges, Gate Piers and Walls

29.3.82

GV II

Two park gate lodges, 2 gate piers and walls. Circa 1835. Ashlar
to lodges with stone slate roofs, squared dressed stone with ashlar
copings to walls. Two identical neo-Jacobean lodges of 2 storeys
set parallel to drive and at right-angles to the Malmesbury road.
Rectangular in plan with gabled end walls decorated with balls and
urns terminating in obelisks to kneelers and apexes of gables.
Two-light windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor, single lights to
upper. Tall ashlar stacks rising from eaves to rear. Square gate
pier to right intact with dentil cornice and urn-obelisk finial;
original pier to left demolished, only rebuilt stone stump remains.
Curving quadrant walls terminating in square piers creating
forecourt to left and right. Both lodges were in a very poor state
of repair at time of resurvey (July 1986).
(Tim Mowl & Brian Earnshaw, Trumpet at a Distant Gate, 1985)

Listing NGR: ST9473988337

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273085

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)