Survey Data
Reg No
11821015
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
286714, 208104
Date Recorded
13/12/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1880, with square-headed open internal porch to centre and single-bay single-storey flanking canted bay windows. Extended, c.1975, comprising three-bay single-storey parallel range along rear elevation to north forming double-pile. Hipped roofs (hipped to canted bay windows; gabled to porch). Replacement artificial slate, c.1975. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Painted. Rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed openings (including canted bay windows). Stone sills. Timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening in open internal porch having pair of pillars. Glazed timber door. Side lights. Set back from road in grounds shared with Gilltown House perpendicular to road. Gateway, c.1880, to south comprising pair of rendered piers with decorative cast-iron double gates.
Appraisal
East Lodge, an integral component of the Gilltown House estate, is a fine and well-maintained symmetrically-planned gate lodge of modest proportions. Although extended in the late twentieth century, the additional range has been sympathetically designed in keeping with the character of the original portion. The gate lodge retains some of its original materials, including fenestration, and is attractively sited flanking the avenue leading to the main house. Bounded to the east by a rubble stone boundary wall the gate lodge is nevertheless a prominent and attractive feature in the locality. Of social and historic interest, the gate lodge attests to the extensive nature of the estate and various roles played by the buildings constructed, and the tenant’s employed, therein. Complementing the gate lodge is a fine gateway to south, which is an attractive early surviving example of cast-iron work.