Camla House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1870, having attic storey, gabled porch to front (north-east) elevation, canted bay window to north-west elevation, and gabled return with lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods, rooflights, rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves, and timber bargeboards. Snecked squared sandstone rubble walls, with dressed quoins and tooled stone plinth course. Rendered walls to extension. Tooled sandstone crest with figure of rampant lion over entrance door. Square-headed window openings having tooled sandstone surrounds, and bipartite and tripartite leaded windows with timber mullions. Square-headed window openings to return, having render sills and replacement timber or uPVC windows. Bay window has round-headed leaded lights, painted tooled stone mullions and sill, stone apron. Tudor-arch entrance doorway, having painted tooled stone surround, and replacement timber door and overlight, opening onto stone paving having cast-iron boot-scraper. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation with glazed timber door. Boundary hedge surrounding gate lodge, terminating in double-leaf steel vehicular gate flanked by square-plan rendered piers to east.

This well-proportioned gate lodge, known as "Front Gate Lodge", retains much of its original form and decorative detailing, including tooled masonry surrounds, bay windows, crest and leaded windows. Once a gate lodge for Camla House, this simple building constituted an integral component part of the demesne landscape. The gate lodge was the main means of visual communication for a demesne, the style and detailing of the lodge often intended to promote an ideal of the main house. This example, while restrained, clearly shows skill in stone-working and makes an important visual contribution to the immediate area.