Survey Data
Reg No
15702634
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1842 - 1903
Coordinates
298283, 134487
Date Recorded
17/08/2007
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1903, on a T-shaped plan centred on two-bay single-storey breakfront; four-bay single-storey rear (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge having stringcourse below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves having timber consoles. Roughcast walls. Paired square-headed central window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to Edermine House
Appraisal
A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Edermine House estate in the later nineteenth century with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on an expressed breakfront; 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 self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15702635) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.