Listed Building: APLEYHEAD LODGE (1.20.1)

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Grade I
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 419832
Date assigned 01 February 1967
Date last amended

Description

Gateway and attached lodges, gates, bollards and railings. c.1770. Stephen Wright. Ashlar and iron, each lodge with 2 stacks. Set on a plinth. Central tall archway with ornamental iron gates. Archivolt with fluted keystone. The spandrels contain single recessed square panels each with round raised centre. Reeded frieze, dentil cornice, balustraded parapet with achievement of arms in central panel. The 2 archway piers each have single recessed tall, round arched panels to road side and niches to park side. At impost band level an entablature is continued at either side above a colonnade consisting of 2 columns and 2 pilasters with fluted capitals with single central small iron gate and outer iron railings. The band terminates in single rusticated and pyramidal coped pilasters. The colonnade carries a parapet which curves up towards the archway. Either side are single storey lodges which curve round to project on both the park and road sides. Each having a single central opening in architrave surround with frieze and cornice set into an elliptically arched panel and flanked by single tall round arched niches. The road side openings have single glazing bar fixed lights and the park side doorways with panelled double doors. The end walls are dummy replicas of the central arch with dentil cornices, each having a central blind moulded arch supported on imposts with fluted moulding and containing a single recessed round niche with fluted surround. In the spandrels are single recessed square panels each with round raised centre. Flanking the arch and set back are single rusticated pyramidal coped pilasters. Above are single parapets curving up towards the central balustraded parapet. To the road side, flanking the gateway and following the line of the lodges, are 10 bollards. These are attached to the rusticated pilasters via single iron chains which also run between the bollards. (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 64492 77335 (32m by 50m)
Map sheet SK67NW
District Bassetlaw
Civil Parish Elkesley, Bassetlaw

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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