West Lodge And Entrance Screen

West Lodge and Entrance Screen is a gate lodge and entrance screen built in the early 19th century for J.B.S. Morritt. The structure is primarily made of ashlar stone, except for the squared stone on the left return of the lodge, and features a Lakeland slate roof with cast and wrought iron gates. It is designed in the Greek Revival style.

The lodge is a single-storey, one-bay building with an eaves cornice supported by block corbels. It has a shallow distyle-in-antis Doric porch that encloses a fielded-panel door set in a panelled stone surround. The roof is low and pyramid-shaped, topped with a small banded stack at the apex. The right return of the lodge features a broad recess with a 9-pane sash window in a panelled surround, while the left return has a 16-pane sash window in a stone surround.

The gate piers have moulded bases and Greek key friezes, topped with seated stone sphinxes. Dwarf quadrant walls with gabled coping support railings with moulded spike finials that connect to similar end piers. The double gates have scroll-topped stiles, plain bars, dogbars, and crossed diagonals below the mid-rail. There is also a short length of railing with a similar single gate to the right of the outer pier, linking to the lodge.

Historically, the artist J.S. Cotman mentioned in a letter that he had made suggestions to Mr. Morritt regarding the lodges, which Morritt intended to take.