Lodge With Attached Railings And Gateway At Middlewood Hospital

The lodge with attached railings and gateway at Middlewood Hospital was built in 1877, likely designed by Bernard Hartley, the City Surveyor who also designed the South Yorkshire Asylum. The structure is made of red brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs, which were partly stripped at the time of the survey, and finials. It has two storeys plus attics and is laid out in an L-plan.

Facing the street, the lodge displays a prominent crow-stepped gable with a shouldered mullioned window containing two lights. Above this, there is a three-light mullioned window with a stepped head. To the left, in the return angle, is a hipped porch supported by octagonal wooden posts on a brick plinth. The porch contains a six-panel door and a narrow window, with a plain sash window above.

The left return features a large cross mullioned window with blind upper lights, inscribed with "SYA 1877". Adjacent to the porch, there is a curved wrought iron railing approximately 5 meters long, set on a chamfered ashlar plinth. To the left of this railing is a gateway with four octagonal ashlar piers topped with crenellated caps, with the inner pair featuring lamp brackets. The central pair of wrought iron gates is flanked by single side gates. Further to the left, there is an additional railing and plinth, also approximately 5 meters long.