Description

ST 5678,
901-1/21/1365

BRISTOL,
HENBURY ROAD,
Henbury Castle Lodge and gateway, Blaise Castle Estate

(Formerly Listed as: HENBURY ROAD (West side) Blaise Castle Estate, entrance lodge and gateway from Henbury Hill)

04.03.77

II*

Lodge and gateway. 1798-9. By Humphry Repton. Pennant ashlar
with limestone dressings, roof not visible. Single-depth plan,
linked by an arch to a turret. Gothick style. 2 storeys;
1-window range. Left-hand lodge slightly forward of the
entrance porch beside the 4-centred carriage archway, a tall
octagonal turret on the right, with string courses to the
ground and first floors and a crenellated parapet,
machicolated above the archway. 3-light ground-floor and
2-light first-floor windows with Tudor-arched heads and
labels; Tudor-arched door in porch below a shield and
first-floor crossed arrow slit window. INTERIOR not inspected.
Part of Repton's landscape design for Blaise Castle House
(qv).
(Repton H: The Red Book, Blaise Castle Estate: 1798-: FIG 1).

Listing NGR: ST5667878185

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552512

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)