Survey Data
Reg No
31309008
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Bridgemount
Original Use
Gate lodge
Date
1840 - 1894
Coordinates
121263, 282386
Date Recorded
14/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey gate lodge, extant 1894, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on scalloped rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with moss-covered threshold, and concealed dressings with fitting now boarded-up. Square-headed flanking window openings in square-headed recesses with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded-up. Road fronted opposite entrance to grounds of Bridgemount House.
Appraisal
A gate lodge forming part of a neat self-contained group alongside an opposing gateway (see 31309007) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene at the entrance on to the grounds of the Bridgemount House estate.