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Description: Entrance Gateway & Lodge to Burial Ground

Address: 17 Boothtown Road Boothtown Halifax HX3 6EU

Grade: II

Group detail: Boothtown Road (west side)

Full description:
Mid/later C19. Stone, Gothic structure with gable over main arch and foot archway to south. Simple original iron gates and cross finials. Plain 2-storeyed lodge attached to north side: 'L' shaped with plain sash windows and coped gables to slated roof. Cast iron railing to front area matching gates. (The Entrance Gateway and Lodge to Burial Ground together with Nos. 23 to 51 (odd) form part of Akroyden, a model village begun by Col Akroyd in about 1851 to the designs of Sir G G Scott but never completed).