Survey Data
Reg No
15702549
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
295467, 139128
Date Recorded
22/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, designed 1837, on a square plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet with clay ridge tiles, quatrefoil-perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gables with decorative timber bargeboards to gablet, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves on consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and monolithic surround having chamfered reveals framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with timber mullions, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals framing four-over-four (ground floor) or one-over-one (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Bloomfield.
Appraisal
A gate lodge erected to a design (1837) by Daniel Robertson (d. 1849) contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Bloomfield estate with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling contemporary gate lodges on the Castleboro House estate (see 15702509; 157025--), suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a restrained doorcase; 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, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15702550) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.