Springfield House

Detached single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted gate lodge with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, abbreviated red brick Running bond chimney stack (west), timber bargeboards to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on timber eaves boards on box eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined coursed rubble stone walls with concealed rough hewn rubble stone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded up. Street fronted at entrance to grounds of Springfield House.

A gate lodge forming part of a self-contained group alongside an adjacent gateway (see 15502052) with the resulting ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in Hill Street at the entrance on to the grounds of the Springfield House estate.