Barwick Lodge, including entrance gate piers and attached walls, Parlington Estate

Barwick Lodge, including entrance gate piers and attached walls, Parlington Estate

This is a lodge to the Parlington Estate, dating from the early 19th century, with an associated north estate entrance comprising gate piers and attached walls.

The original lodge is constructed of coursed limestone ashlar with some cement render, with a slate roof. It has an unusual hexagonal plan with longer elevations to the east and west sides and a small projection on the north side. (Note that Ordnance Survey mapping inaccurately depicts the building's north-east angle.)

The building sits on a plinth, which is taller on the east side due to a change in ground level. The roof is shallow with hips to the angles, a central ridge stack of handmade buff brick, and deep overhanging eaves. The three-bay front elevation faces west towards visitors entering the estate through the adjacent north entrance. It features a central panelled doorway with diagonally-set battens, flanked by sash windows, all with flat-arched heads and painted-stone sills. The windows are four-over-four unhorned sashes. Those to the left and an overlight above the door have glazing bars set diagonally to form star shapes; this diagonal glazing pattern is replicated on windows to the building's north-east and south-east angles. Blind windows exist to the north, north-west, south, and south-west angles. A small later-inserted window is set high on the east wall. Modern cement render has been applied to the stonework below the windows at the south-west corner. On the north side is a small original flat-roofed projection of coursed limestone with a partly-glazed panelled door and a plank and batten door on the east side, probably originally a privy and coal store or ashes place.

A late-1960s single-storey flat-roofed extension is attached to the east side. This sits on slightly lower ground with cement render walls scored to imitate stonework and a rendered chimneystack. It is believed to have replaced an original smaller projection. This extension is not included in the listing.

Internally, the original lodge is divided into two rooms with back-to-back chimneybreasts: a kitchen to the north side and a lounge to the south side, with a small vestibule inside the main entrance. The kitchen contains modern units, a late-20th-century brick fireplace (a cast-iron range was removed in the late 20th century), and doorways leading to the lounge and the extension. The lounge has a late-20th-century fireplace and a hatch providing access to the roofspace. Six-panel doors survive throughout.

Immediately to the north-west of Barwick Lodge is the north entrance to the Parlington Estate. This comprises square gate piers with shallow-domed caps constructed of limestone, flanked by curving wing walls of coursed limestone with rounded copings. The wing wall to the west projects out directly from the front face of the gate pier. The wall heading east decreases in height beyond the wing wall, with a ramped section connecting the two, and continues for approximately 100 metres, whilst the wall heading west continues for approximately 20 metres.