Whickham, Fellside Road, lodges and gate piers

HER Number:
8349

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Whickham, 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:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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

Easting:
1950

Northing:
5958

Grid Reference:
NZ19505958

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/125