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People's Park — Newtown Road

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People's Park — Newtown Road
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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, dated 1900, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay; single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey return (south). Now disused. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roof (end bay); trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks have yellow brick stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, trefoil-perforated decorative timber bargeboards with terracotta finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto"-detailed rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed recess approached by three concrete steps with fittings now boarded up. Paired square-headed flanking window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with one-over-one timber sash windows now boarded up. Paired round-headed flanking window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with one-over-one timber sash windows now boarded up. Set back from line of road at entrance to People's Park.

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