Former lodge to Newton Hall with gate piers and flanking wall

The building is a former lodge to Newton Hall, now offices, constructed in 1856. It stands with gate piers and short flanking walls on the north side of Chapel Town Road in Leeds. The lodge is built of rock-faced ashlar with ashlar detailing, featuring a decorative slate roof, walls, and piers. It is a single-story structure with a cellar, comprising one bay by two bays.

The north front has an entrance doorway on the right with a moulded round arch and a carved date plaque above the door. To the left is a two-light mullioned window. Above these elements is a string course and a band of red and cream tiles, topped by a gable with a circular panel of blue, red, and white tiles arranged in a floral pattern incorporating a Star of David and a cross; the gable is finished with vase and ball finials. Restored sash windows are present throughout. The left return to the road includes two cellar openings with pierced cast-iron panels and one- and two-light windows. A round-arched dormer is located to the left, and a gable to the right has a circular plaque carved with ivy leaves. Elaborate cast-iron rainwater pipes, with raised diagonal bands, are enclosed by a string course and plinth. A tall chimney with linked triple octagonal flues runs along the centre of the ridge.

The front facing St. Martin’s View features a cellar opening with a panel, a small square-headed window with a drip-mould and tile band, and a small pierced panel within the coped gable, finished with vase and ball finials. The interior has not been inspected.

The gate piers are approximately 1.5 metres high, square in section, with a moulded plinth, cornice, shaped capstone, but no finial. The monolithic flanking walls have a moulded coping, with the overall length of the wall and gateway being around 8 metres.

The lodge dates from the rebuilding of Newton Hall, which was demolished. The Hall was occupied by Arthur Lupton, whose family owned the Town's End cloth dressing mill in 1788. In 1845, Darnton Lupton, the mayor of Leeds, described moving from the town centre to Potternewton around 1840. Arthur's brothers, Francis and Darnton, developed the grounds south of the hall as a building speculation. By the time the Church of St Martin was built in 1879, the lodge was separated from the main house.