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Listed Building record MDR23231 - Pair of Former Gate Lodges and Walls to Sudbury Hall, Main Road, Sudbury

Type and Period (2)

  • (Georgian to 21st Century - 1787 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Georgian to 21st Century - 1787 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Pair of former gate lodges and walls to Sudbury Hall, Main Road, Sudbury, built c1787. From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 13 SE PARISH OF SUDBURY MAIN ROAD 3/57 (West Side) 13.9.67 Pair of Lodges, gates and walls to north of Sudbury Hall GV II Two lodges (one now a bus shelter) and attached walls. The lodges said to be of 1787 by Thomas Gardner of Uttoxeter, though in Jon Griffin's painting of Sudbury c1681 similar lodges are visible. Walls probably late C18. Red brick with ashlar dressings and welsh slate pyramidal roofs. Central brick stacks. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Angle quoins. Lodges are almost identical. Square in plan. Three-bay north elevations, the centre bay advanced and pedimented and ashlar faced. Rusticated round-arched entrance, that to the west lodge with raised and fielded panelled door. Flanked on either side by bricked-up windows with moulded stone surrounds and evidence of former cross windows. Similar but plainer west elevations. Other elevations of two bays with cross windows, mostly now blind. Stone coped wall attached to south of east lodge. Early C19 wrought iron gates to west and low brick retaining or ha-ha wall with two drive entrances and second set of wrought iron gates, linking to west lodge. Source: H Colvin A Biographical Dictionary if British Architects 1600-1840'. 2nd edition p.332. Listing NGR: SK1599832118.' (1)

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1274086?section=official-list-entry.

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Grid reference SK 15998 32118 (point)
Civil Parish SUDBURY, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Sep 2 2023 12:05AM

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