Marlfield House

Detached three-bay single-storey with attic house, built c.1830, with canted-bay window to south gable, gable-fronted porch to front elevation, and lean-to extensions to rear. Pitched slate roofs to main block and porch, having alternating courses of regular and fish-scale slates to porch, both roofs having terracotta ridge cresting with carved timber finials and pierced scalloped timber bargeboards, and with red brick chimneystack. Hipped slate roof to canted-bay. Corrugated and slate roofs to extensions. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement mullioned-and-transomed small-paned windows having limestone sills. Fixed small-pane windows to canted-bay and single casement windows to sides of porch. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and limestone steps. Wrought-iron railing bounding garden to front of site. Shallow quadrant entrance gates with decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates set to square-profile cut sandstone piers with plinths and caps, flanked by ruled-and-lined rendered wall.

Designed by the renowned architect William Tinsley the simple form of this gate lodge exhibits attention to architectural design and detailing. The façade of the building is enlivened by features such as the ridge cresting, bargeboards and the bay-window. The timber casement windows are most impressive, with the upper panes opening independently of the lower ones. This lodge forms part of a group of related structures associated with Marlfield House.