What is recorded here

Detached three-bay two-storey former gate lodge, built c.1880, having lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with gabled dormers and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered wall to front (west) elevation with rendered walls elsewhere. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone sills, having intersecting Y-timber tracery to first floor windows, bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with rendered surround and timber panelled door. Square-profile roughcast rendered piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates to front of site.

Located opposite the eastern entrance to Mount Pleasant, the two-storey scale of this former gate lodge is not typical of the standard gate lodge type. Its façade is afforded decorative emphasis by the use of intersecting timber tracery and gablets which enliven its appearance. It acts as a reminder of the wealth and grandeur of the demesne in the past.

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.