Ryehill

Detached three-bay single-storey T-plan gate lodge, built c.1830, having cut limestone Venetian-style distyle portico entrance. Recent two-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with wide overhanging eaves supported on carved stone brackets, and stone chimneystack. Rendered walls. Portico has Doric columns flanked by pilasters flanked in turn by ashlar quoins, with stone steps. Square-headed replacement timber windows with shouldered stone architraves. Square-headed doorway with moulded limestone surround flanked by round-headed niches, and having replacement uPVC door. Set back from road with convex approach comprising limestone plinth wall with decorative cast iron railings supported behind by ornate cast-iron brackets.

Set at the entrance to Ryehill House, this gate lodge is an attractive classical building superbly framed by high-quality railings and plinth walls. The design of the latter mirrors that of the entrance to Ryehill House, creating an attractive grouping along the roadside. The host of details in the lodge are well executed in good limestone.