Description

NU 02 NE CHILLINGHAM CHILLINGHAM

5/61 West Lodge and Gateway
to Chillingham Castle

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Lodge and gateway. Dated 1835 on lodge. By Edward Blore for the Earl of Tankerville.
Dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Tudor and Jacobean styles.

Lodge: L-shaped, 1½ storeys, 2 bays. Gabled projecting left bay has stone-roofed
canted bay window on ground floor, 2-light window under hoodmould above. Casement
windows with double-chamfered surrounds. Blank right bay with front lean-to. Gabled
coping, kneelers and finials to roof. Offcentre transverse stack with 2 diagonal
shafts. Small gabled porch on left return.

Wide curved wall, stepped up on right to lodge. Lower left section with 2 end and
two central square piers with roll moulded ogee caps and similar finials. Central
piers have cast iron gates with obelisk finials and flanking, 2-stage square
towers on plinths of wall height. Each has 2 x 2 arcaded lower stage with roll-
moulded ogee roof dying into diagonally-set upper stage with similar top and finial.

Listing NGR: NU0562725509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294278

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