Description

MALDON

TL8508SE COLCHESTER ROAD, Heybridge
574-1/5/237 (South East side)
19/01/90 Lodge, gates and gate piers formerly
to The Towers
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET GREEN ROAD, Heybridge
Lodge gates and gatepiers formerly
to The Towers)

II

Lodge, now house. c1870. For EM Bentall. In-situ concrete,
grooved to imitate masonry; roof concealed by blocking course
and has central stack with 4 pots with Greek-key design. In a
Classical style.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 2-window range with splayed corner.
Plinth and deep coved cornice. Front has 2 sash windows, with
vertical glazing bars only, in reveals and further sash on
splayed corner. Side elevation has portico with a fluted Doric
column, a pier and 2 pilasters.
Attached to right side are a pedestrian gate flanked by
pilasters with cornice over and 2 large square concrete
carriage-gate piers, incised to represent masonry, with
stylized Greek-key design above. Wooden gates with elaborate
iron grilles at top.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: built for EM Bentall as the entrance lodge to The
Towers (since demolished) and an early and stylistically
elaborate use of concrete as a building material.

Listing NGR: TL8597308263

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548484

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)