Gateway and Lodges for Old Military Depot

The gateway and lodges for the Old Military Depot were built around 1859. Constructed from ashlar sandstone with Welsh slate roofs, the structure is two storeys high. It features a central gateway flanked by projecting turrets and attached lodges, all designed to fit the corner site. The central gateway includes studded doors with ten panes each, set within a tall segmental-pointed-arched opening that has stop-chamfered jambs and a moulded arris to the voussoired arch. Above the gateway, a pointed-arched Lombard frieze supports a crenellated parapet.

The turrets have double-chamfered plinths and are battered, featuring slits on each floor and a small window inserted between the slits on the left tower. They also have triple-corbelled machicolations at the crenellated parapets and ground-floor slits on their inner returns. The outer ranges include a square window and a slit on each floor to the left, while to the right there is a rock-faced plinth, a ground-floor two-light mullion window, and three first-floor slits, all topped with triple-corbelled machicolations.

The lodges have hipped roofs with corbelled corniced stacks at the outer ends. The rear of the building features a plain arch with stop-chamfered jambs, and the ground-floor windows were originally three lights, with two-light windows on the first floor. The parapets are similar to those at the front. The northern lodge has an L-shaped plan, with a two-light window above the roof of wrapped-round outbuildings. Access to the lodges is through doorways inside the archway. This gateway served as the entrance to the Military Depot of the Pontefract Corps of the West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers and was disused at the time of the re-survey. The brick ranges outside the lodges are not of special interest.