Survey Data
Reg No
60260166
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Oak Lawn
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1830 - 1840
Coordinates
325644, 220080
Date Recorded
14/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting open porch. Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), pressed or rolled lead ridges centred on cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed decorative timber bargeboards to gables with abbreviated octagonal finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Tudor-headed central opening with cut-granite threshold, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals. Round-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed door opening into gate lodge with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing timber casement windows. Interior including: central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of The Aske.
Appraisal
A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the The Aske estate with the architectural value of the composition, one eliciting strong comparisons with a pattern-book design for "A Bailiff's Cottage" published in "Rural Residences" (1818) by John Buonarotti Papworth (1775-1847), confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 60260167) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.