Beeston Lodge

Beeston Lodge is a lodge and gateway located at the east entrance to Cholmondeley Park, built in 1854. It is constructed from red sandstone in random rubble and features a tile roof. The building has two storeys, three bays, and a tower on the east front, along with a two-bay entrance front on the north side. The irregular road facade includes a return of a south stepped gable, a square stair turret with stepped lancets, and a steep pyramid roof topped with a mushroom finial. There is a stepped east gable with a pointed first-floor oriel window and trefoil-headed single light windows below, as well as a three-storey north-east tower. This tower has an octagonal plan, arrow slots at two levels, lancets at the first floor, and a crenellated parapet with angled water spouts.

The Lodge is connected to the main gateway by a wicket within the wall, which features the date above in three incised linked circles. The main opening is flanked by twice-offset buttresses and has a shallow Gothic arch with an archivolt, containing a pair of mainly openwork wooden gates with metal-shoe-spiked Gothic heads. The gate wall is stepped and has carved arms at the center. The Gothic-headed entrance to the Lodge is located in the tower and includes wing lights, along with a canted bay window with a stone roof on the west side. Curved crenellated boundary walls flank the entrance, forming a semi-circular approach to the east drive.