Lodge, Gates, Piers And Screens To Forecourt Between Coach-House Court And Eaton Hall Cottages

The lodge, gates, piers, and screens to the forecourt between Coach-House Court and Eaton Hall Cottages were built in the 1870s by Alfred Waterhouse for the 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster. Constructed from stone and shaped red tiles, with wrought and cast iron elements, the single chamber gabled lodge features an early French Renaissance style. It has a semi-octagon bay window at the front, topped with a hipped roof made of wrought stone slabs and an armorial panel. The window is surrounded by deep moulding and mullions, and the structure sits on a twice-weathered plinth. The eaves and parapet gables are shaped stone, and there is a tall, strongly moulded hexagonal gable chimney. The sides and rear have lancet windows with patterned leaded glazing, and there is a boarded oak door on ornate wrought iron hinges, set back in a moulded stone opening.

The two gate piers feature octagonal corner buttresses and spirelets, topped with steep gabled caps that carry ornate lamp standards with coronals of curved wheat-ears below octagonal lanterns, which were originally gas. A similar but smaller pier, without a lamp standard, is located to the left. The pair of iron gates has closely spaced scrollwork below the lockrail and two panels above, each with a central letter 'W'. Doghead finials adorn the vertical rails. The screens on either side of the gates are of a similar design and stand on tapered stone plinths. The lodge, gates, and screens are among the few remaining intact elements of Waterhouse's boundary fence between the park and garden.