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Detached T-plan three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1810, having pedimented cut limestone distyle in antis portico and single-bay single-storey over basement extension to rear. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with cut limestone coping to pediment. Ashlar limestone walls too front and side elevations of main block, with carved limestone armorial plaque and incised diamond pattern to tympanum of pediment, having panels above openings to end bays. Rubble limestone elsewhere, with roughly dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with carved limestone surrounds. Portico having monolithic Doric columns with plinths and supporting frieze and pediment. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by carved timber pilasters. Sited across the road from gates to Altamira House which comprise carved limestone gate piers to vehicular and flanking pedestrian entrances, having moulded plinths, string courses and moulded caps, set to cut limestone boundary walls having cut limestone copings and terminated by similar piers, with cast-iron railings, and cast-iron single-leaf and double-leaf gates.
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