British Listed Buildings

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ST5477 NAPIER MILES ROAD, Shirehampton
901-1/24/1755 (North West side)
08/01/59 Two lodges and attached garden walls
opposite former Kings Weston stables
(Formerly Listed as:
NAPIER MILES ROAD
(South side)
Two lodges and walling round pond
opposite Kings Weston Police Station)

GV II*

Lodges, pond and garden walls. 1763. By Robert Mylne.
Limestone ashlar and rubble, lateral stacks and slate roof,
with brick walls. Symmetrical plan of a central square pond
surrounded by garden wall, and flanked by square lodges.
Lodges are 2 storeys; 3-window range. Pedimented ashlar
lodges, blind to the road, with sash windows and door from the
garden; tall brick garden walls ramped up over ashlar
semicircular arches to the sides and middle of the back wall.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached flanking rubble walls to the
road extend approx 50m NE and SW from each lodge, with central
gateways, the right-hand one blocked, left-hand one has steel
spear-headed gates, with capped ashlar piers, and piers at
each end, that at the SW end with a ball finial. Brick walls
extend back from the road enclosing rectangular gardens. The
walls originally enclosed the kitchen garden of Kings Weston
House (qv).


Listing NGR: ST5436377605

Source: English Heritage

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