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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic[?], extant 1838, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porch; three-bay (east) or single-bay (west) full-height side elevations. "Improved", pre-1924, producing present composition. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch, lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having shallow stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, scissor truss-detailed timber bargeboards to gable with timber finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed door opening into gate lodge with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-three timber sash windows. Pointed-arch window openings (east) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Interior retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Westport House.
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