Cahore House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, built 1846, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled projecting breakfront; single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (east). Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued private residential use. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront) with terracotta ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond octagonal central chimney stacks on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on red brick Running bond base having cut-granite capping, rooflights to front (west) pitch, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves having chamfered timber consoles. Red brick Flemish bond walls on chamfered cushion course on red brick Flemish bond base. Elliptical-headed window openings centred on elliptical-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement with elliptical-headed window openings (east), cut-granite lugged surrounds having chamfered reveals framing one-over-one timber sash windows without horns. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Cahore House.

A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Cahore House estate with the architectural value of the composition, one interpretable as a reduction of the Daniel Robertson (d. 1849)-designed Wells House (1836-45), Wells (see 15702132; Craig and Garner 1975, 56), confirmed by such attributes as the symmetrical footprint centred on an expressed breakfront; the construction in a vibrant red brick offset by silver-grey granite dressings not only demonstrating good quality workmanship, but also producing a lively palette; and the decorative timber work embellishing the roofline. 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 adjacent gateway (see 15701738) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.