OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS

OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS, DUKES DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375772
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS
Statutory Address:: OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS, DUKES DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375772
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS
Statutory Address 1:: OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS, DUKES DRIVE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OVERLEIGH LODGE AND GATES AND SCREENS, DUKES DRIVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40240 65060

Details

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

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Legacy System number:: 469751
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 175

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.