Gate Lodge To Marbury Hall

SJ 54 NE 2/59

MARBURY CUM QUOISLEY C.P. HOLLINS LANE

Gate Lodge to Marbury Hall

GV II

Gate Lodge. Dated 1876 on bressumer to first floor. Probably by Lockwood. Red random bond brick painted in simulation of timber framing, red sandstone ashlar and timber framed with a hipped roof of alternating bands of plain and fishscale tiles. Two storeys. The drive front has a centre a canted ashlar bay window, the ground floor of which has a central doorway with C20 timber porch before. To the angles are cross-windows with ovolo moulded surrounds. To either side are slightly recessed single storey wings which have two slit lights with a common ashlar sill. Toothed band to the eaves. At first floor level is a central jettied bay supported on timber brackets and with a decoratively chamfered bressumer to the centre of which is the date. Central 4-light casement window with ovolo-moulded wooden surround. Decorative timber framing to the walling with arched and cusped heads to the panels and ogee-struts to the gable. Similar decorative framing to the sides at first floor level. The right hand single storey wing has a ½-hipped roof with a triple-lancet and cusped heads to the lancets in the gablet. The left hand wing has a gablet into which projects a 2-light window with cinquefoil heads to the lights. Chimney stack of 4 flues to the ridge.

Listing NGR: SJ5645845141