Gatepiers And Flanking Walls And Lodge To The Woodlands

The Woodlands gatepiers, flanking walls, and lodge date from circa 1899. The structures are built of hammer-dressed snecked stone with an ashlar finish, and have a stone slate roof. The lodge is single-storey and L-shaped, in a Jacobethan style. The gabled wing to the left features a canted oriel window with deeply-chamfered mullioned windows. The gables are coped with exaggerated giant kneelers and ball finials. A central ridge stack features two coupled diamond-set flues. The front has a recessed porch; the doorway has a shaped lintel and chamfered surround. The rear includes a two-light chamfered mullioned window and deeply-moulded eaves cornice. The roof is hipped where it meets the wing. The right-hand return wall includes two chamfered windows and a coped gable with a false arrowslit to the apex. The gatepiers have a plinth, triple pilasters with a moulded capital, a carved motif to the frieze, and a cornice. They are topped with original wrought-iron lanterns. Flanking walls extend to either side, forming segmental-arched shapes on the plan, supported by square abutments with cornices and ball finials, ashlar coping with a semicircular reversed arch with voussoirs aligned to the courses. The lodge is associated with Woodlands (separately listed).