Survey Data
Reg No
31302906
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Millbrook
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1840 - 1876
Coordinates
111423, 323019
Date Recorded
07/03/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1876, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch; single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey central return (north). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on a cruciform plan on strutted timber construction centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), pressed iron-covered clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on axis with ridge having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable (porch), and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves having timber consoles. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with concealed hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, timber mullions, and concealed red brick voussoirs framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Owenmore.
Appraisal
A gate lodge illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the Owenmore estate by William Orme JP (1801-76) with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact symmetrical footprint centred on an expressed porch; and the decorative timber work embellishing a slightly oversailing roofline. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, 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.