The Ochra

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built 1905; occupied 1911, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled breakfront. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront) with terracotta ridge tiles, paired red brick English Garden Wall bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls with "timber frame" surface finish to gables. Square-headed central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-two timber sash windows. Set perpendicular to road opposite entrance to grounds of The Ochra.

A gate lodge contributing positively to the group and setting values of the The Ochra estate with the architectural value of the composition, one conveying to the passer-by an impression of the eponymous house (see 60280006), suggested by such attributes as the symmetrical footprint centred on an expressed porch; and the Arts and Crafts-like timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thus upholding the character or integrity of a gate lodge making a pleasing visual statement in a sylvan street scene.