Streatlam Castle South Lodges, With Walls, Gates And Railings Attached

Streatlam Castle South Lodges, along with their walls, gates, and railings, form the south entrance to the now-demolished Streatlam Castle. These structures were built around 1840. The lodges are made of sandstone ashlar with plinths and have roofs covered with graduated Lakeland slates. The walls are also ashlar, featuring wrought iron gates and railings in a classical style.

The west lodge is a square, single-storey building with one bay and projecting centers on each elevation. It has a sash window with glazing bars and an architrave on the south elevation facing the road, along with a finely dentilled cornice and a high blocking course. The pyramidal roof has a central banded square chimney. The right return features a pedimented architrave to a six-panel door with a high overlight, with the pediments of the door and window at the same height.

The east lodge is also single-storey but has three bays, with projecting centers on all sides. The south elevation includes a pedimented window on the left, a corniced window in the second bay, and a blank third bay, all styled similarly to the west lodge. It has a finely dentilled cornice and a high blocking course, with a hipped roof that features two corniced ridge chimneys. The left return has a pedimented door facing the gates, similar to that of the west lodge.

Attached to the west lodge is a quadrant wall, while a wall that breaks forward from the east lodge has low rounded coping. Low rounded dwarf walls on the inner faces of the lodges support high railings with blunt-spiked heads, a top saltire band, and semicircular braces, with the upper ones inverted, leading to high dogbars. The vehicle gates are designed in a similar style.

Streatlam Castle was the home of the Bowes family, and work on the castle was carried out by J. and B. Green in the early 1840s.