Listed Building: BELGRAVE LODGE GATES, PIERS AND WING WALLS (1136157)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 34, 2, 48
Date assigned 02 November 1983
Date last amended

Description

SJ 36 SE EATON C.P. BELGRAVE AVENUE (West end) Eaton Park 2/48 Belgrave Lodge Gates, Piers and Wing Walls GV II Pair of gates with piers and wing walls, 1889, by John Douglas for 1st Duke of Westminster. Of wrought and cast iron and stone. Each gate has the Westminster initial and ducal coronet with heraldic roses as central motif in a panel of plain vertical rails within an ornate surround. Spiked dogbars at base. Scrollwork, some with leaf terminals, at sides and floral and leaf pattern at top of gates. Square stone piers with recessed corners, projecting moulded plinths and classical moulded projecting capitals, surmounted by talbot dogs rampant, bearing shields. The north shield bears a cross; the south shield a Grosvenor sheaf. Wing walls (all in yellow sandstone, with consoles to piers) enclose a deep rectangular grassed forecourt. Rear walls (on plane with gates) have shaped copings and piers with stone ball finials. Plain stone side walls to forecourt, with flush copings, open towards Wrexham Road with convex quadrant wings. Listing NGR: SJ3867661142

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 55244. [Mapped features: #4458 55244; #9763 55244]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 3862 6115 (116m by 99m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ36SE
Civil Parish EATON, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

Oct 30 2009 12:00PM