West Lodges With Gates Gatepiers And Flanking Walls

The West Lodges with gates, gatepiers, and flanking walls are a pair of lodges dating from the mid-18th century, with panels and finials added around 1770 to 1775. They mark the entrance to the former driveway of Ormesby Hall. Constructed from sandstone ashlar with painted stone pedestals, the lodges feature slate roofs and renewed wrought iron gates.

The design is Palladian, incorporating Adam-style panels and finials. Central gatepiers connect to the flanking lodges via short walls that include round-headed pedestrian gateways with archivolts, plain impost bands, and single-leaf gates. The lodges are 1½ storeys tall with single-bay open-pedimented fronts, accessed through doorways on the sides. Each lodge has chamfered rustication below a continuous impost band, which holds a blocked round-headed window with voussoirs. The panels are decorated with paterae and husk garlands in the tympana and feature dentil cornices.

Single-storey, single-bay mock wings are attached to the ends of the lodges and have similar recesses. The inner returns contain blocked doorways with moulded surrounds, although the left lodge's doorway is missing. The eaves cornice is continuous and dentilled. The rear of the lodges mirrors the fronts, with blocked openings, including windows in the tympana.

The gatepiers exhibit chamfered rustication and support corniced pedestals without plinths, adorned with paterae and husk garlands. The sculptured lion-head finials, which were pierced by spears representing the Pennyman crest, are currently missing and stored at Ormesby Hall. The double-leaf gates feature curved rails and spear-head verticals. The walls that flank the mock wings curve out to the road, ending in chamfered-rusticated piers topped with ogee saucer-domed caps. At the time of the last survey, the structure was disused and in a state of dilapidation.