Survey Data
Reg No
13901702
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1850
Coordinates
298918, 286299
Date Recorded
04/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1840, now in private domestic use. Rectangular-plan, projecting gable-fronted full-height entrance bay to north, single-storey flat asphalt roofed extension to south. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with sprocketed eaves, clay ridge and hip tiles, sky-lights to south, uPVC gutters and downpipes, painted timber bargeboard to gable of entrance bay, painted smooth rendered chimneystack, flat-capped. Painted smooth rendered walling to all elevations; painted smooth rendered slightly projecting plinth, channelled quoins to outer corners, vertically banded quoins to entrance bay, north elevation Square-headed window openings, painted tooled stone sills, painted moulded timber frames and central mullion, multiple-pane metal windows, elongated octagonal design; narrow window to west elevation, elongated octagonal leaded light; painted casement window to east; uPVC windows to extension. Square-headed door opening to east elevation of porch, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Garden to south, north bounded by mild steel railings flanked by tooled limestone round-headed piers; house opposite entrance to Ashville House.
Appraisal
This structure is a highly attractive mid-nineteenth-century decorative lodge opposite the entrance to Ashville House. Its handsome symmetrical façade, with elegant proportions, is further enhanced by the ornate leaded light windows with beautiful elongated octagonal design. Other features to the house include its decorative bargeboards and fine sprocketed eaves roof.