Gateway

The building known as the Gateway is a gatehouse that has been converted into a house. It likely dates from the mid to late 17th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed from coursed squared stone, it features a stone slate roof and stands two storeys tall. Originally, the ground floor was taller but has been shortened due to a raised road level, which allowed for the conversion of the space into a basement.

The north-facing front has a half-bay on the right with a door, while the main bay features a round-arched gateway that is chamfered and has moulded voussoirs and imposts, although it is now blocked and contains a mullion window. Above the gateway is a moulded cornice supported by leaf-decorated corbels, which breaks forward at the ends and center, and includes a frieze with a carved-face keystone. On the first floor, there is a double-chamfered window, formerly consisting of four or five lights, with one mullion and a dripmould that has decorative stops. The roof is hipped and originally had corner blocks for ball finials, which have been removed, as well as a central shaped finial from the 17th century.

At the rear, there is a plinth and a tall round-arched gateway with a moulded surround that features a wave-moulded base on plinths and imposts. This gateway has been infilled and now includes a 20th-century basement window beneath a three-light flat-faced mullion window. The cornice above the gateway matches that on the front of the building. On the first floor at the rear, there is a four-light double-chamfered mullion window, which has been reduced to two lights, along with a decorative stopped dripmould.

On the left return, there are two double-chamfered mullion windows on the first floor, which were originally four-light; the left window is blocked and features decorative-stopped hoodmoulds. This structure served as the gatehouse to Willow Hall, which has since been demolished, and was built by Samuel King of King Cross. The cornices over the gateways are stylistically similar to those found above the fireplaces of other houses in the area, such as those at Nos 43-47 Hollins Lane, which date to 1688.