Description

BRIXHAM

SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers 1946-1/6/46 (South side) 10/01/75 Lodges, gates, flanking walls & railings at N entrance to Gramercy Hall School (Formerly Listed as: BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers Lodges and railings on road entrance to Lupton House)

GV II

Lodges, gates, walls, and railings. c1843. By George Wightwick; doubled in depth 1983-5 by Keith Proctor. Solid-walled, rendered lodges. Roofs not visible from road; they appear to be flat. Panelled, tapered chimneypot, standing on a low pedestal, on front and back pediment of each lodge. 1 storey. Fronts designed as Doric porticos with paired pilasters at each end supporting an entablature with triangular pediment. Centre window, tapering towards the top, with eared architrave, 6-paned sashes. Side-walls facing entrance have 3 pilasters in centre and 2 at each end; 2 tapered doorway with eared architraves and 6-paned half-glazed doors each side. Top entablature with blocking course. Rear walls designed to match the fronts. Subsidiary features: in front of the lodges a pair of iron gates with spearhead uprights hanging from square openwork iron piers with rounded tops; decorated with flowers, foliage and pine-cones. Railings to match the gates, extending outwards to the road in ogee curves. At each end a panelled pier with moulded cap. Beyond that an ogee-shaped stretch of limestone ashlar walling ending in a square pier. Wall to right has flat stone coping and low pyramidal cap to pier; these are missing on left-hand side. (The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition): 1989-: 833).

Listing NGR: SX9026355622

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