Sunnyhill House

Detached three-bay single-storey rubble stone double-pile gate lodge, c.1870, retaining early aspect with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to rear to west. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) roof with slate (gabled to porch). Clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stack with yellow brick dressings. Cast-iron rainwater goods on yellow brick corbelled eaves. Rubble stone walls (rendered, c.1990, to rear to west). Vermiculated clay quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Yellow brick dressings including chamfered reveals. 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.1990. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.

This gate lodge, now known as "Sunnyhill Cottage", is a fine, diminutive architectural piece that forms an eye-catching landmark on the road side. The building has been well maintained and retains much of its original feature and materials, including a slate roof. The construction sees the juxtaposition of a variety of materials including rubble stone, red and yellow brick, and terracotta (clay), which achieves a pleasing polychromatic effect. Built as a gate lodge to Sunnyhill House the gate lodge is of some social importance, attesting to the extent of a mid to late nineteenth-century planned estate.