Building record 478/0/28 - The Arch Gate

{1} Lodge gateway. Late C18/early C19. Red brick with ironstone ashlar facing and sandstone dressings. Double hollow-chamfered 4-centred Tudor-style arch with hood mould and trefoil cut spandrels, with Knightley arms above. Moulded plinth, offset angle buttresses, battlemented parapet with moulded and hollow-chamfered string course below. Blocked doors between arches left and right with 4-centred heads. Formerly flanked by single-storey one-unit wings providing accomodation for the lodge gate keeper. Stands at the entrance to Badby Woods on one of the former drives to Fawsley Hall.

{3} Two small structures shown either side of the northern entrance into Badby Wood.

{4} undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 19/1 (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1812, First Edition Ordnance Survey Surveyors Drawings (Sheet 228), (unchecked) (Map). SNN105835.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Badby (Photographs). SNN111890.

Record last edited

Mar 4 2020 12:23PM