Survey Data
Reg No
12308022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Previous Name
Rich View
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1845 - 1855
Coordinates
250582, 157607
Date Recorded
10/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, built 1850, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Segmental-headed open internal porch (west) with rendered flush surround. Square-headed window opening (east) with sill, and rendered flush surround with fitting now boarded up. Square-headed window openings (gables) with sills, and rendered flush surrounds with fittings now boarded up. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Rich View.
Appraisal
A gate lodge forming part of a self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway with the resulting ensemble illustrating the "improvement" of the Rich View estate by Thomas Bradley (1788-1871).