gate lodge — Mount Prospect Avenue

Attached single-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c. 1840, having square-plan two-stage tower and carriage-arch to south elevation and recent extension to north elevation. Now in use as house. Flat roofs, hidden behind crenellated render parapets, having round-plan turret to parapet of tower. Smooth rendered walls, rendered buttresses to north-west corner of tower and south of carriage-arch, angled corner wall to first floor to rear elevation of tower, and stepped battered wall to rear. Render shield over pedestrian entrance to south of carriage-arch. Square- and round-headed window openings to tower, arranged singly or in group of three, with chamfered reveals and sills, timber windows and moulded render label-mouldings terminating in figurative stops to front elevation. Pointed arch window openings to extension, with chamfered render reveals and sills and timber windows with Y-tracery. Round-headed window opening to south-west elevation with painted masonry sill and timber window having coloured glass panels. Square-headed door opening to front of extension having glazed timber double-leaf door. carriage-arch comprising round-plan piers with stepped capping and blind arrow loops flanking pointed arch opening having render surround, and pedestrian entrance comprising pointed arch opening, now blocked, set in render surround with crenellated parapet, to south. Set back from east side of Mount Prospect Avenue.