Shippool House

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, having later lean-to additions to rear (north-west) and side (north-east). Hipped replacement tile roof with gable to side (north-east), having red-brick chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron roofs to lean-to additions. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with plinth to front (south-east) and side (south-west) elevations, having rendered walls to side (north-east) elevation and additions. Round-headed blind niches with raised render voussoirs and tooled limestone sill to side (south-west) elevation. Round-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills to front elevation, having three-pane timber casement windows surmounted by tripartite fanlights. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber battened door to front elevation. Square-headed window openings to side (south-east) elevation of addition to north-west. Square-headed door openings to rear (north-west) elevations of additions. Located within grounds of the Shippool estate, having rubble stone boundary walls including splayed rendered entrance with plinth, tooled limestone coping and square-profile piers with single and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

A modestly scaled gate lodge and impressive entrance which are part of the Shippool estate that originally belonged to a branch of the Herrick family of Beaumanor in Leicestershire. Though the roof has been altered, the building retains much of its historic fabric intact, including blind niches and round-headed openings which retain their original joinery. The finely crafted tooled limestone piers and decorative cast-iron gates form part of an eye-catching entrance sweep, which together with the lodge and second lodge to the south-east, are indicators of the former wealth and status of the Shippol demesne in the past.