North Lodge To Scarisbrick Hall With Gatepiers And Walling

This is a gate lodge, likely dating to around 1840, originally serving Scarisbrick Hall and now divided into two dwellings. It is constructed of punched squared sandstone with quoins, and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof hidden behind an embattled parapet. The lodge is three bays wide and two stories high, built in a Tudor style. The ground floor has Tudor-arched windows (a) and doors (b), arranged in the sequence a,b,a,b,a, all with hoodmoulds. Above are three similar windows on the first floor. Modern glazed doors have replaced the originals, and all windows retain four cusped lights and wooden mullions. Above the doors on the first floor are two stone shields; one is blank, and the other is carved with a crested coat of arms, a decorated surround, and a ribbon inscribed "PATIENTIA VINCIT OMNIA". Tall chimneys are located at the end walls. The associated gatepiers are approximately 3 metres high, square with stop-chamfered corners, and have octagonal caps with weathering. Low, convex approach walls with roll-moulded coping lead up to the gatepiers.