Hollybrook House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1868, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey central return (west). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth on rendered base with rendered yellow brick Running bond panelled pilasters. Square-headed door opening (south) with two cut-limestone steps, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window opening (north) with concealed dressings framing timber casement window having margins. Set back from road at entrance to grounds of Hollybrook House with piers to perimeter having drag edged tooled cut-limestone chamfered capping supporting flat iron double gates.

A gate lodge not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Hollybrook House estate, but also clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate by John ffolliott (1798-1868) with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form; the slender openings showing pretty margined glazing patterns; and 'the most eccentric deeply cut panelled pilasters [supporting] a gabled roof so shallow as to give it an Italianate feel' (Dean 2019, 92). A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the somewhat featureless interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing, if increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.