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End of terrace three-bay two-storey over basement gate lodge, built c.1870, with square-plan pedestrian way to front elevation linked to formal entrance gates of Hope (Blayney) Castle. Roof concealed behind moulded stone-capped brick parapets having brick chimneystacks with over-sailing courses, moulded capping and decorative octagonal clay pots. East façade is heavily obscured by ivy, trees and other vegetation but steps leading over smooth rendered basement to round-arched doorway and brick walls with ashlar dressings just visible at time of survey. Elevation onto Market Square features Flemish-bonded brick walls to first floor, with rounded projecting stone string course above window heads, rusticated block-and-start ashlar stone quoins and chamfered stone string course separating rusticated ashlar ground floor. Ashlarwork continues to incorporate walls of pedestrian way. Square-headed window openings have moulded stone architraves and stone sills with wrought-iron railings to first floor. Group of three ground floor windows within round-arched openings and have ornate cast-iron fans to rounded heads of openings, with timber boarding to rest of frames. Cast-iron railings with distinctive diagonal brace pattern fixed to low cut-stone plinth with 'ball' feet and swan's-neck stays protecting basement area.
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