Survey Data
Reg No
30403307
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Demesne walls/gates/railings
In Use As
Demesne walls/gates/railings
Date
1820 - 1860
Coordinates
181205, 252940
Date Recorded
20/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Vehicular entrance gates to Thornfield House, erected c.1840, comprising inner and outer piers of channelled ashlar limestone having moulded cornices and low-pitched pyramidal caps. Cast-iron railings and gates between, set on low, quadrant walls of ashlar limestone with moulded copings. Three-bay single-storey L-plan gate lodge opposite gateway, having later flat-roofed extension to north side, and three-bay south side. Windbreak to doorway of channelled ashlar with open-bed pediment and with dropped keystone to door opening. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed replacement timber windows with painted sills. Square-headed doorway with glazed timber door. Rendered boundary wall to small front garden.
Appraisal
The lodge and entrance gates to Thornfield House were built at the same time using the same type of channelled ashlar, the design of the ashlar doorcase of the lodge being quirky. The gates were a fine introduction to the now-demolished country house and as a group with the bridge and the lodge, makes a significant group of eighteenth-century structures.