Fellside Road, lodges and gate piers
Fellside Road, lodges and gate piers
HER Number
8349
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Fellside Road, lodges and gate piers
Place
Whickham
Map Sheet
NZ15NE
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Site Type: Broad
Garden Building
Site Type: Specific
Gate Lodge
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
2 former east lodges with gate piers to Gibside Estate. Circa 1860. Sandstone
ashlar in Gothic style. Side walls rubble stone. One-storey, one-bay,
square lodges with plinth, cornice and castellated parapet. 4-panel doors
on inner returns have pointed fanlights in stepped, 2-centred-arched recesses,
the whole in slightly projecting sections. Each front has a pointed-arched
sash window. Moulded and fluted impost strings. Piers: 2 ashlar piers
between the lodges. Square plinths. Roll mouldings to plinth and beneath
overhanging cornices; shallow pyramidal caps. LISTED GRADE 2
ashlar in Gothic style. Side walls rubble stone. One-storey, one-bay,
square lodges with plinth, cornice and castellated parapet. 4-panel doors
on inner returns have pointed fanlights in stepped, 2-centred-arched recesses,
the whole in slightly projecting sections. Each front has a pointed-arched
sash window. Moulded and fluted impost strings. Piers: 2 ashlar piers
between the lodges. Square plinths. Roll mouldings to plinth and beneath
overhanging cornices; shallow pyramidal caps. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
419500
Northing
559580
Grid Reference
NZ419500559580
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/125