Marlfield House

Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey central return (north). Now in private residential use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond central chimney stack on axis with ridge having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered piers to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings in square-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and moulded surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (north) with cut-granite sill, and moulded surround framing one-over-one or four-over-four timber sash windows behind wrought iron bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Marlfield House.

A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Marlfield House estate with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact symmetrical footprint; and the slightly oversailing roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in a sylvan street scene.