Description

SP7073 COTTESBROOKE COTTESBROOKE

14/129 Lodge, gates and gatepiers to
02/11/54 Cottesbrooke Hall (west)
(north side)
(Formerly listed as
Cottesbrooke Hall Lodges)

GV II

Lodge with gates and gatepier. Late C18. Architect Robert Mitchell.
Limestone ashlar. Lodge originally one-unit plan. Single storey. Central
sash window with glazing bars has balustrade below and pediment over; all
set in shallow arched recess. Door facing drive has 6 fielded panels with
moulded stone architraves set in similar shallow arch with shields of arms in
tympanums. Frieze cornice, panelled and balustraded parapet with large oval
urns over centre. Wrought iron gate to right hanging from rusticated pier
with moulded cornice and oval patrae flanked by Roman Doric 2-column open
screen with wrought iron panels and hand gates surmounted by entablature
with triglyph freize with sphinx over linking to flanking lodge. The lodge,
gates and gatepiers form a pair with the east lodge. They were moved to their
present position in 1938 from the Leicester Road.
(Buildings of England Northamptonshire, p.163).

Listing NGR: SP7087273648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26309483

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings