Low Lodge With Associated Gate Piers And Wall

Low Lodge, with associated gate piers and wall, is a lodge to the former Kippax Park, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof in the Gothick style. The building is single storey and consists of three bays, with the outer bays slightly canted forward for a symmetrical appearance. The central doorway is Tudor-arched and deeply recessed within a wide outer arch of the same shape, which has a hoodmould. From the centre of the hoodmould, a slender curved cresting rises to a carved crocket above the cornice. On either side of the doorway, there are windows with two arched lights, hollow spandrels, and hoodmoulds. A moulded cornice runs around the embattled parapet, which steps up over the door. The low-pitched hipped roof features a central chimney stack. The return walls have matching three-light windows. There are low screen walls on each side of the entrance to the drive, which are concave in plan and have square piers at each end, along with two other piers that have fallen and once supported side gates.