Survey Data
Reg No
15607028
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Janeville House
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
302656, 122885
Date Recorded
05/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded box eaves. Roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Brookville.
Appraisal
A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Brookville estate with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; and the slightly oversailing roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.