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Gatehouse and adjoining cottage and wall built c1830 for John Emerton Wescomb. Red brick with blue brick lozenge decoration. Gatehouse with two embattled and panelled octagonal turrets, being corbelled out at the top, set onto moulded plinths and of two stages with bands. Extending between the turrets and over the moulded Tudor arched gateway is an embattled parapet. Hood mould over gateway rises to accommodate a carved shield. Arms: Or two bars sable a canton ermines (Wescomb). Attached to the right is a red brick wall with ashlar coping and terminating in Elm Cottage. To the left of the gatehouse is the single storey cottage, with the four light mullioned window, embattled parapet and octagonal chimney stack. (Photo Oct 2014).