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Detached two-bay single-storey limestone ashlar neo-Classical-style gate lodge, c.1830, with single-bay single-storey recessed entrance bay to right having diastyle in antis portico to front, two-bay single-storey side elevations, and colonnade to rear (west) elevation. Now in ruins. Roof now gone (original profile not discernible) with cut-limestone chimney stack, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone cornice. Tooled limestone ashlar walls with limestone ashlar dressings including piers and corner piers having moulded stringcourses, engaged pilasters, frieze, and moulded cornice over. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills and sill courses, and moulded surrounds. Fittings now gone. Square-headed door opening behind diastyle in antis portico having limestone ashlar paired pillars, moulded surround, and fittings now gone. Limestone ashlar colonnade to rear (west) elevation with paired pillars to ends (one partly collapsed) supporting frieze, and moulded cornice. Interior now in ruins with red brick irregular bond internal walls having remains of plaster over, and camber-headed corner fireplaces with red brick ‘voussoirs’, and red brick lining. Set back from line of road in grounds shared with Headborough House with overgrown grounds to site.

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