Description

B6528
NZ 16 NW
20/127

HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL
(South side)
Close House lodge
and gateway

II

Lodge, gatepiers, screen walls and railings. Early C19 and early C20. Ashlar and
iron. Lakeland slate roof.

Octagonal rusticated gatepiers, with widely-projecting cornices and ball
finials, flanked by short stretches of low walling with plain railings; beyond
these are serpentine walls c. 6 ft. high with rounded coping, and pilasters.
Similar but lower walls continue along the road for c. 40 yards in each direction
and end in square corniced piers.

Wall immediately to left of gateway is broken by the end wall of the later lodge.
Single storey, 3 x 1 bays. Raised alternating quoins. Central stone porch,
with pilasters, cornice and blocking course, flanked by canted bay windows with
stone pent roofs. Twin gables with large obliquely-set modillions and moulded
coping. Corniced ridge stack. On left return (i.e. breaking into serpentine
wall to left of gateway) a C20 window in raised alternating-block surround
under similar gable.

Listing NGR: NZ1204666536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294718

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)