The Gate Lodge — Bishop's Gate Street

Detached single-storey gate lodge on L-shaped plan, built c.1890. Originally built to serve the Presentation Convent (15310158) to the north but now in use as a private house. Hipped and pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with timber brackets and having moulded rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots over. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered reveals and replacement windows. Open porch to the south corner of advanced bay to the west having a rendered pier to the front with moulded cornice over and with matching moulded cornice to adjacent sections of main body of building. Recessed square-headed doorway with timber panelled door having a plain overlight. Rendered plinth wall with decorative wrought-iron railings bounds house to the northwest side. Located adjacent to the north of the main entrance gates serving the Presentation Convent, comprising a low rendered plinth wall on crescent-shaped plan having decorative wrought-iron railings over and open-work iron piers on square-plan to the corners. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast side of Bishop’s Gate Street.