Dorfold Hall Lodge And Entrance Gates

Dorfold Hall Lodge and entrance gates were built in 1862 for Wilbraham Spencer Tollemache. The lodge is constructed of red brick with stone dressing and features a tile roof, designed in the Jacobean style. It is a single-storey building with a two-bay facade on the north side and a two-bay entrance front on the west. The lodge has a projecting weathered stone plinth, flush stone quoins, and stone-dressed mullion windows, which are topped with the Tollemache diamond and cross emblem. The windows are complemented by canted bays that have projecting cornices and stone roofs.

The entrance features a door with three vertical panels set within an inset porch that includes external pilasters and an archivolt with springers and a keystone. The roof is adorned with a moulded parapet and ogee-shaped gables above the windows, which are flanked by ball finials on scotia moulded bases. On the south elevation, facing the park, there is a single mullion window topped with a St George cross and an emblem of four birds, flanked by small bullseye windows.

The screen walls connecting the lodge to the gates on the west are made of brickwork with a stone plinth, featuring blue brick diaper work in a continuous diamond pattern, and topped with a three-section balustrade of linked cast-iron roundels framed in moulded stonework, complete with cast-iron ball finials on scotia moulded pedestals. The gate piers have torus moulded plinths, chamfered stone-dressed quoins, and moulded caps that support cast-iron heraldic lions with shields. The gates themselves consist of square rods with spear and scroll features and are topped with a semi-circular arched overthrow based on scrolls, featuring the Tollemache fret emblem at its center.