Gate Lodge To Wilmslow Park

A late 19th-century gate lodge and associated boundary wall, with minor 20th-century alterations. The lodge is constructed of red and blue bricks laid in wide alternating bands, with painted ashlar dressings, tall ridge and gable stacks with diagonal and rounded clustered shafts topped with crested chimney pots. It has a banded Welsh slate roof with crested clay ridge tiles. The plan is L-shaped, with an attached low wing to the northwest corner, and the rear yard has been infilled to create additional accommodation.

The front (west) elevation is two storeys and two bays, built on a shallow plinth with a sandstone band. An advanced gable on the right incorporates an arch-headed doorway within a quoined surround, featuring a deep lintel below a hood mould with plain stops. A 20th-century half-glazed door is present. Above the doorway is a two-light window with paired sashes and shallow arched heads in a painted surround. To the left is a lower roof extension, and a single and two-light window. The south elevation has a cranked roof pitch, with ornate timber brackets supporting the eaves, forming part of a band of ornamental mock timber framing with cross-braced panels. There are two and three-light windows, the latter with replacement joinery. Walling to the former rear yard is now infilled. A single-storeyed wing is attached to the northeast corner, with a hipped roof. The interior was not inspected.

A low, roughly coursed sandstone masonry wall extends from rusticated stone gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps for 30 meters to the west, connecting with a 12-meter curved banded brick frontage wall with a chamfered plinth and steeply-pitched ashlar coping.

The lodge forms a group with the entrance kiosk to the west. It was built to regulate access to the former Bollin Park, now known as Wilmslow Park, and includes an associated entrance kiosk designed for collecting payments from pedestrians.