Building record 6713/0/2 - North Lodge & Attached Gate Piers to Kelmarsh Hall

A late 18th century gate lodge to Kelmarsh Hall. The lodge is constructed of rendered lias stone ashlar with a slate roof and is built to a "T-shaped" plan. Attached by low walls are two pairs of rusticated ashlar gatepiers: the wrought iron gates themselves are 20th century.

{1} Lodge, gate and gate piers. Probably late C18. Lias ashlar and stucco with slate roof. T-shaped plan. Single storey. Sash window with glazing bars in gable end is set in arched recess. Ashlar gable parapets. Rendered stacks at ridge. Porch to left has doorcase with moulded and eared architraves with pulvinated frieze and cornice over. Two pairs of rusticated ashlar gate piers attached to left and linked by low walls and C20 wrought iron gates.

{2} Ashlar and stucco lodge with slate roof; probably late C18th.

{3} Lodge building shown.

{4} Lodge marked.

{5} Lodges and gates built 1965-6 to Wyatt's designs, found in Northampton public library, dated 1778.

{6} Undated photo;

{2/7} North Lodge: A lodge with gate piers to Kelmarsh Hall. The lodge probably dates to the late 18th century. it is constructed of rendered lias stone ashlar with a slate roof and is built to a T-shaped plan. The building feature gabled pediments and the entrance. Attached by low walls are two pairs of rusticated ashlar gatepiers: the wrought iron gates themselves are 20th century.

{8} Centred at SP 73788 79764 and labelled as "lodge" on modern OS digital mapping. (3)

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/63 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G02 p.27 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Second Edition OS 25 Inch Mapping Series (23.12), (unchecked) (Map). SNN41741.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1880, First Edition OS 6 Inch Mapping Series (MULTIPLES!), 23SE (checked) (Map). SNN41967.

<5> WALL J.C., 1927, Kelmarsh, A Parochial History, (unchecked) (Book). SNN41737.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Kelmarsh (Photographs). SNN112703.

<7> PEVSNER N., 1961, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, P. 270-271 (Series). SNN113374.

<8> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), 1:1250, 2008 (Map). SNN112944.

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May 2 2024 3:45PM