West Entrance Lodge, Screen Walls And Gateway At Oaks Park

The west entrance lodge, screen walls, and gateway at Oaks Park date from the early 19th century, with later 20th-century alterations. The lodge is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a pyramidal slate roof with a coped stone rear wall stack. It features heavily rusticated quoins, a plinth, cornice and blocking course. The single-story lodge has a single window. The windows are 20th-century top-hung glazing bar casements. A moulded stone doorcase with a cornice on scroll brackets frames a six-panel door, flanked to the left by a window in a similar surround. A similar window is also on the left return. Coursed rubble concave screen walls are attached to the right of the lodge and have ramped slab coping. The gateway has rusticated ashlar piers with cornices and ball finials, supporting wrought-iron skeleton piers and double wrought-iron gates. A section of wall, approximately 5 meters long and of similar construction with a ball finial, is attached to the rear of the lodge.