Survey Data
Reg No
15702909
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Woodville
Original Use
Gate lodge
In Use As
Gate lodge
Date
1820 - 1829
Coordinates
272522, 130255
Date Recorded
11/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, dated 182-, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay single-storey on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. "Improved", post-1912, producing present composition. Hipped slate roof with pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), moss-covered terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered central chimney stack to rear (south) pitch supporting terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on roughcast chamfered plinth; rendered surface finish (half-dormer attic). Pointed-arch central window opening (porch) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing timber casement window behind wrought iron bar. Pointed-arch window openings with inscribed cut-granites sills ("182-"), and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows (ground floor) or three-over-three timber sash windows (half-dormer attic) having overlights. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Woodville House.
Appraisal
A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Woodville House estate with the architectural value of the composition, one colloquially known as "Costello's Lodge", confirmed by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on an expressed porch; and the "pointed" profile of the openings underpinning a "picturesque" Georgian Gothic theme in contrast to the restrained Classicism of the nearby country house (see 15702908): meanwhile, aspects of the composition clearly illustrate the continued development or "improvement" of the gate lodge in the early twentieth century. 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 15702910) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.