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Leek House

gate lodge
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Leek House
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Detached single-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, having canted front (north-east), with extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with timber eaves, clay ridge tiles and red brick chimneystack. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having rubble stone plinth course with tooled limestone coping. Coursed rubble stone to extension. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings having render surrounds, tooled limestone sills and timber casement windows. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to north-west face with render surround and timber battened door opening onto tooled limestone step. Single-arch bridge over stream to south-east of building, round arch having tooled limestone voussoirs, rubble stone to parapet and spandrel walls. Gateway to south-east of bridge comprising cast-iron railings on tooled stone plinth wall, square-plan tooled limestone piers with recessed panels and pointed capping flanking double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate.

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