Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 DUKE'S DRIVE
1932-1/8/75 (South side)
Overleigh Lodge and gates and
screens

II

Lodge, gates and gate piers and screens. c1893. By RW Edis.
For the first Duke of Westminster. Gate piers, corner piers
and end-piers with plinth-walls to screens of cream stone;
wrought-iron gates, screens and railings. Lodge of yellow
sandstone, cream stone, stone-dressed and blue-diapered red
Ruabon brick; Westmorland green slate roofs.
T-shaped 2-storey lodge cottage has yellow sandstone ground
floor, stone-dressed blue-diapered brick first floor, porch
with shaped gable and round stair turret with conical spire in
front angle of T, mullioned windows, some transomed, much
carved stone ornament, shaped gables, lead and wrought-iron
finial to spire and highly ornate central chimney of 5
separated flues with spiral and trellis mouldings.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Plinths to gateway with slightly recessed moulded copings;
plinths to rusticated gate piers with rebated corners, fluted
capitals with moulded cornices and urn finials; end-piers to
screens, larger than those to gates, have short rebates below
capitals holding vase-balusters and lavishly ornamented urn
finials. Double carriage-gates with quasi-overthrow hinged
with gates, flanked by pedestrian gates with overthrows:
bottom rail; dogbars; double lockrail and double toprail;
gates and screens have richly ornamented panels with scrolls,
foliar and floral motifs; coronets, Grosvenor sheafs and
interlaced W's; wall extends to Wrexham Road.
The gates and lodge were designed to impress visitors at the
entrance to the three mile approach, now severed, from Chester
to Eaton Hall (Eaton CP).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-: 175).

Listing NGR: SJ4024065060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Overleigh Lodge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7113785

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