Lodge Of The Firs, With Attached Gateway

The Lodge of The Firs, built in 1851 by Edward Walters, is a gate lodge with an attached gateway located on Whitworth Lane in Rusholme, Manchester. The lodge is constructed of stucco on a brick base and features a slate roof. It has stone gate piers with wrought-iron gates, and the side walls are made of red brick in Flemish bond. The lodge is square in plan and two storeys high, facing the drive. To the right, there is a rectangular two-storey gabled bay, while to the left, a doorway with a shouldered architrave is present. The gabled bay has round-headed lancets at the ground floor and wooden mullion-and-transom windows on both floors, along with barge-boards that are pierced by quatrefoils. A small oriel window is located on the first floor of the gabled bay. The left return wall features a wooden canted oriel at the first floor. The gateway is marked by square gate piers topped with pyramidal caps and elaborate wrought-iron gates, flanked by convex quadrantal side walls of brick, with the left side wall connecting to the lodge.