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TF 00 NE UFFINGTON BARNACK ROAD (west side) 9/222 North and south gate lodges, gates and gate piers to former Uffington House [2/61] 30.10.68 II Pair of gate lodges, gates, gate piers, flanking walls. c.1840 in Early Georgian style, possibly by Samuel Gray, for the Bertie family. Ashlar with rusticated quoins, moulded plinth, cast iron. Central pair of cast iron gates having circles to outer rails, scrolled lower panels and central circle containing scrolled motif. Scrolled overthrow bearing central coat of arms. Flanked by single square rusticated gate piers with bolection moulded cornices surmounted by life sized busts of crowned wild men. The flanking pedestrian gates have rails with curlicues and central circles bearing the Bertie Arms. They are set in semi- circular headed arches with dropped keystones, the flanking walls have moulded cornices. The square lodges have rusticated quoins, plain friezes and moulded cornices, above are plain parapets with balustraded panels and plain angle piers. Each has a single glazing bar sash in a bolection moulded ashlar surround. The side fronts have half glazed doors in moulded ashlar surrounds with pulvinated friezes and cornices. To either side the ramped and curving screen walls begin with square ashlar piers and terminate in square rusticated pillars, all with moulded cornices and ball finials. ' Listing NGR: TF0651607210

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