Building record 0420806005 - Lodge, NW of mansion, Stowe Landscape Gardens

Summary

Nineteenth century entrance lodge built about 1830, with attached eighteenth century gateway.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1211871: COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS, GATE PIERS AND WALL NORTH WEST OF THE MANSION
  • SHINE: Stowe medieval to post medieval landscape garden, medieval deserted villages of Lamport & Boycott, shrunken village of Daford, also moats, manors and fishponds, ridge and furrow earthworks & cropmarks, and areas of ancient semi natural woodland

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Type and Period (4)

  • LODGE (Built about 1830, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • GATE PIER (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • WALL (18th Century - 1700 AD? to 1799 AD?)
  • RAILINGS (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Small lodge c1830 by Edward Blore. Brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof, dentil eaves. 1-storey. Central stone doric porch with pediment; sash window each side and one in each end elevation. C19 spearhead railings on left join cottage to a set of 4 C18 square stone gatepierswith cornices, crowned by urns to the larger, inner piers, balls to the smaller outer piers. High stone wall links piers to the western Leoni arch [CAS 0420801002](B14).
Pevsner and Williamson suggest the Garden Lodge was built in 1839 (B62).

Sources (3)

  • ---SBC17422 Aerial Photograph: 04/09/76. BCM A2/11/20-22. SP\674376. Yes.
  • <14>SBC3681 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1983. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p23.
  • <62>SBC19664 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner & Elizabeth Williamson. 1994. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p687.

Location

Grid reference SP 67302 37452 (point)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13583)

Record last edited

Aug 19 2013 1:25PM

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