Description

SU 67 NW
2/21

BASILDON
MEAD LANE (west side)
Tower Lodge and adjoining gateway

II

Entrance Lodge and gateway. Mid to late C18 with C20 addition to rear. Stuccoed brick with banded flint rustication and string course. Dentil brick cornice with triangular pediment over central projection to east, and old tile roof. Gothick style. Two storeys.

East front: central first floor circular window with rusticated keystones, two ground floor diamond leaded arched windows with continuous hoodmould flanking central arched door with ogee - arched glazed panel. Small first floor oval window to north. Entrance to rear. Octagonal tower set back to right of two stages with battlemented brick parapet. Arched traceried windows on alternating faces. Blank arched panels, blank circular panels with quatrefoils on each face above first floor.

Four-centred brick archway to north with imposts and arched reveals String and stone coped parapet above. Coped brick retaining wall to north curving down to square end pier.

Listing NGR: SU6143977967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505384

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings