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Polehore House

gate lodge
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Polehore House
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Detached three-bay single-storey over basement gate lodge with dormer attic, extant 1903, on a rectangular plan. "Restored", 1998. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Red brick Flemish bond walls on red brick Flemish bond plinth; coursed rubble stone walls (basement) with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and red brick voussoirs framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and red brick voussoirs framing replacement four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement to gables to side elevations with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and red brick voussoirs framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Polehore House.

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