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Brookville

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Brookville
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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1810, now disused. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with cut limestone sills and remains of timber windows. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Set in rubble stone boundary walls with cut stone coping and round-headed and camber-headed niches recesses with rubble stone voussoirs. Camber-headed pedestrian entrance with rubble stone voussoirs and cast-iron gate. Cut stone square-profile piers with carved caps and cast-iron double-leaf gates to entrance. Additional entrance to west with rubble sandstone sweep walls, square-profile piers and cast-iron double-leaf gates. Ruinous remains of building to north with rubble limestone walls and segmental-headed opening.
Part of Brookville demesne, a fine country estate which was once a significant local focus and employer. The gate lodge and entrance screen, along with the remaining related structures, are notable satellites of the main house.

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Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit