Description

SK 9699-9799 REDBOURNE WADDINGHAM ROAD (east side)

22/74 Redbourne Hall Lodge and Gateway 6.11.67

GV II Gateway, wing walls and lodge. Gateway of 1775-6 by John Carr of York, for the Rev Robert Carter Thelwall. Later C18 - early C19 alterations, lodge and screen wall to left for Duke of St Albans estate. Gateway and wing walls of rough-faced limestone ashlar with smooth-faced ashlar dressings; screen wall to left of squared limestone with ashlar dressings. Lodge of coursed limestone rubble with rendered brick stacks and slate roof. Wrought-iron gates. Gothick style. Tripartite gateway with central carriage arch flanked by pedestrian arches, square turrets and wing walls approximately 3 metres high extending approximately 6 metres to either side, with lower outer sections extending approximately 4 metres; screen wall to left extends approximately 30 metres to outer pier. Lodge adjoins to rear, alongside left pedestrian gateway. Plinth. Central gateway breaks forward, with chamfered round arch, cross-shaped arrow loops to pier, moulded impost band extended to either side as string course, pair of ashlar relief panels in spandrels depicting farming scenes with cattle and cow herds, moulded string course and plain coped embattled parapet with a later raised central pedestal bearing an ashlar tablet with Duke of St Albans' monogram and coronet in relief and surmounted by a carved lion passant with coronet. Chamfered round-arched pedestrian gateways with impost string courses to either side, flanked by projecting square turrets with single cross-shaped arrow loops and corbelled-out top stages surmounted by carved seated lions holding shields. Wing walls: single square-headed 3-light traceried window with Gothick glazing to lodge on left; similar dummy window to right. String course to higher sections. Crenellated throughout. Rear elevation has pair of ashlar relief panels in spandrels depicting maid milking and shepherd boy with flock. Gates: pair to centre have plain bars and dog bars with fleur-de-lys finials and scrolled panels between double bottom, middle and top rails, the latter ramped-up to outside; similar single pedestrian gates ramped-up to outside. Lodge: 4-room plan with central entrances to south and east; west side adjoins gateway. South front: single storey, 3 bays; symmetrical. Quoins. Pointed entrance with recessed 6-beaded-panel door in chamfered architrave flanked by pointed 2-light Y-traceried windows with chamfered wooden mullions and Gothick glazing. Hipped roof; twin diamond-shafted central stacks. Right return, facing Park, has similar door (with 2 central glazed panels) and single similar window. The fine ashlar relief panels, somewhat weathered, are similar to a pair in No 5. Redbourne Hall, formerly in a stableyard wall (qv). Estate accounts record payments for the gateway to a mason called Bell in November 1775, and to a carver called Manning in July 1776. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 340; York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr, 1973, p18.

Listing NGR: SK9712399409

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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