List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: LENTON LODGE (FORMER GATEWAY TO WOLLATON PARK) AND ATTACHED BOLLARDS
List Entry Number: 1270829
Location
LENTON LODGE (FORMER GATEWAY TO WOLLATON PARK) AND ATTACHED BOLLARDS, DERBY ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: City of Nottingham
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 11-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 457103
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Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NW DERBY ROAD
646-1/6/193 (North West side)
11/08/52 Lenton Lodge (former gateway to
Wollaton Park) and attached bollards
GV II*
Gate lodge to Wollaton Hall (qv), now office, and attached
bollards. 1823-25. By Sir Jeffrey Wyatville for the 6th Lord
Middleton. Ashlar, with lead mortar and lead roofs.
Elizabethan Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 2 multiple side wall stacks with round flues.
Moulded plinth and string course on brackets. Windows are
mainly stone mullioned casements, 2 lights.
Central gatehouse with domed corner turrets, flanked by screen
walls concealing outbuildings, and square end pavilions.
Gatehouse, 3 storeys, 3 bays, has a round-arched carriage
entrance, 2 storeys, with framed wooden gates to a passage
with coffered barrel vault. The gates were originally operated
by an underground mechanism, which survives. On each side,
round-arched pedestrian entrances, also with framed doors.
Above them, single windows with strapwork panels. Above again,
a panel spanning the gate, with bronze plaque with coat of
arms flanked by traceried panels. Beyond, single windows.
Above again, bracketed cornice and pierced balustrade. Round
corner turrets, 4 stages, with pairs of round-headed windows
on the lower floors, single casements on the second floor, and
smaller round-arched windows above.
Screen walls have each 3 strapwork gables. Projecting
pavilions have round-arched niches set in blank panels, and
strapwork gables with pediments.
Outside, 2 sets of cast-iron bollards (38) linked by spiked
chains, and arranged in unequal triangles either side of the
main entrance. The chains are linked to the lodge walls by
lions' head bosses.
Rear elevation similar, with additional windows. Each pavilion
has a traceried 2-light window.
INTERIOR has ashlar floors and ceilings carried on cast-iron
beams. Skirtings and dado panels are also ashlar. The original
wooden doors and frames survive.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was erected at the main
entrance to Wollaton Park from Nottingham, and was linked to a
high brick perimeter wall erected at the same time all round
the park. The lodge, with its fireproof construction and
mechanical gates, was part of a defence against riotous mobs,
which were frequent in Nottinghamshire after c1815. Their
culmination was the burning down of Nottingham Castle in 1831.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 280; Lindstrum D: Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, Architect to
the King: Oxford: 1972-).
Listing NGR: SK5483839187
Selected Sources
Books and journalsLindstrum, D, Sir Jeffry Wyatville: Architect to the King, (1972)
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 280
Map
National Grid Reference: SK 54838 39187
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