Description

Circa 1800. Single storey gate lodge, rectangular plan

with circular tower. Modern addition at rear. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with heavy pointing to roadside elevation, harl-pointing to side; ochre painted harl to tower; painted ashlar dressings to door and window on roadside; rendered surround to later window facing drive; droved dressings to window in tower. Grey slate piend roof to main lodge with exposed timber brackets to shallow conical roof of tower, with lead ball finial. Small-pane glazing patterns. Rubble retaining wall adjoined, harl pointed and ashlar coped with pedestrian gateway. GATEPIERS; rusticated ashlar gatepiers, corniced with ball finials.

Statement of Interest

Eskhill with dovecot, wellhead, railings, retaining

walls and further gatepiers is listed separately.

The lodge is mediocre, but the gatepiers merit the

category.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808785

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)