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Scarvy House

gate lodge
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Scarvy House
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Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, having gabled portico to front (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof, with rendered chimneystack and clay ridge tiles, with cast-iron ridge to porch. Coursed rubble stone walls, having painted rendered plinth course, and painted dressed stone quoins. Gauged red brick square-headed window openings, with painted masonry sills, red brick surrounds, timber mullions and octagonal pattern glazing bars. Opening to north elevation blocked. Portico supported by paired cast-iron columns to front corners. Segmental-headed door opening to front, set within recessed segmental-headed panel. Square-headed door openings to north and south elevations of interior of porch. Stone flagged platform to front of door. Square-headed timber battened door to rear. Double-leaf cast-iron gates to road, flanked by square-plan decorative cast-iron piers with ball finials, having matching curvilinear railings on dressed sandstone plinth wall, terminating in square-plan dressed sandstone piers.

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