Listed Building record MDO8939 - The Gatehouse, Deer Park, Blandford Road, Milton Abbas

Lodge at former entrance to Park. Probably built around 1775, to designs by Sir William Chambers. It has ashlar stone walls and low-pitched slate roofs. Each face has a round-arched window with glazing bars, flanked by smaller fixed windows, i.e. a rudimentary Venetian window. There is a nineteenth century extension to the north, extended in twentieth century, with walls of brick and flint banding, partly slate-hung, and hipped tiled roof.

HIGHER LODGE (80580298), gateway, has walls of Portland stone ashlar and lead-covered roofs. It is of the second half of the 18th century and comprises two single-storied lodge cottages of classical design, flanking ornamental wrought-iron gates. Minor alterations were made in the 19th century. The stone gate piers have niches on the N.E. face, modillion cornices on all four sides, and ball finials. Curved wing-walls connect the piers to the symmetrical cottages on either side. Each cottage is square in plan and each facade comprises a round-headed recess within which the doors and windows are arranged. Above are classical entablatures, pedimented on the N.E. and S.W. fronts. <2>

Gatehouse and Stone Lodge (formerly Higher Lodes) and gateway. Grade II. .<3>

he Stone Lodge and the Gatehouse. Grade 2*.<4,5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1968 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 80580298) The Stone Lodge (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 197 (Monograph). SDO136.

<4> DOE (HHR), List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset, 34 (Scheduling record). SDO17666.

Oct 1985

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 293 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> English Heritage, 2005, Register of parks and gardens of special historic interest in England: Dorset (Revised) (Monograph). SDO17438.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205807 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 14 2024 3:51PM