Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW AUDLEY END ROAD, Audley End 669-1/3/334 Lion Gate 01/11/72 (Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY END Lion Gate)

GV II*

Principal gateway to Audley End House (qv). Re-built 1786. Oolitic stone, now colourwashed. Central large carriageway and smaller side footways, all with semicircular arched heads set between inner and outer piers with recessed panelled pilasters, footways have walling with recessed panels above. Attic storey over central arch has inscription panel with date of 1786 and surmounting Coade stone gorged lion on a chapeau inscribed `Coade, London'. Also, draped oval Coade stone urns surmount the flanking piers. Lower terminal piers also have smaller similar urns, to W of Coade stone, to E in imitation. The date, 1616 is set in the spandrels of the centre gate arch. Wrought-iron, leaf decorated 2-leaved gates to each archway with subsidiary iron gate piers to central archway. All paired gates have a dropped swept centre and spear head railings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex: London: 1965-: 65).

Listing NGR: TL5233238023

External Links

• Wikidata Q17534176

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)