Oaklands

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, located inside entrance gates to country house. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered plinth and rendered pilasters framing ends of elevation and entrance doorway, pilasters supporting moulding cornice. Square-headed double timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with painted sills and render hood-mouldings. Gable-fronted porch with latticed timber sides over rendered plinth walls and having slate roof with decoratively carved timber bargeboards. Entrance gates to east comprise cast-iron double-leaf vehicular and single-leaf pedestrian gates between chanelled ashlar stone piers.

This gate lodge has many interesting decorative features, the latticed porch in particular attesting to the demesne-related nature of the building. The associated gates provide important context and these structures allow the visitor to anticipate the architecture of the country house.