Building record 3321/0/21 - Entrance Screen to Avenue Leading into Chase Park, Opposite Avenue Lodges

Entrance screen. 1868 by E.W. Godwin. Limestone ashlar partly banded with ironstone.

{1} Entrance screen. 1868 by E.W. Godwin. Limestone ashlar partly banded with ironstone. Central gateway. Double-leaf iron gates, flanked by tall gatepiers with ball finials. Quadrant walls curve forward from gatepiers to screens either side which have balustrades punctuated by tall piers. Walls and piers banded with ironstone. Screens are continued by stone-coped walls either side. Screen faces Avenue Lodges (q.v.) and leads to avenue into Yardley Chase which continues that aligned on entrance front of Castle Ashby.

{4} At its end, where the Avenue meets the A428, are Avenue Lodges (listed grade II), widely spaced two-storey lodges linked by a stone screen with central arched gateway, all of 1868 and designed in French Renaissance style by E W Godwin (d 1886). This entrance is all of horizontally banded ironstone and limestone, as is the screen with gates (listed grade II) on the opposite, south side of the road, presumably also by Godwin, at the start of the continuation of the Grand Avenue to Yardley Chase. The metalled road up the Avenue does not continue south of the A428.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/189 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> English Heritage, 1994, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1994, Northamptonshire), (unchecked) (Report). SNN1324.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Yardley Hastings (Photographs). SNN114340.

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Feb 25 2025 2:03PM