Gatehouses To Old Hall

These gatehouses, numbered 45 (The Lodge) and 47 (Clock House) on Church Street in Langham, were built in 1925 as access points to Langham Old Hall, designed by H. Goodhart Rendel in an Arts and Crafts style. They are constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with sandstone dressings and a stone-tiled roof. The building is of 1½ storeys, employing a double butterfly plan but appearing asymmetrical.

The front facing the road features a lower wing to the left, containing a full-height door with an overlight where the voussoirs meet the eaves. This wing is attached to the main block, which has a sweeping roof over a projecting wing to the left and a main entrance arch to the Old Hall grounds on the right. The entrance arch has a roughly cambered timber lintel supported by elaborately wrought struts on moulded corbels. Numerous dormers are positioned above. The right-hand angled wing has two double doors with timber lintels and modernistic moulded corbels. The rear elevation includes a short angled wing with a stone-arched doorway in the gable end, casement windows, and a dormer. A projecting right-hand wing extends at two angles, featuring wood mullioned windows with cambered stone heads and a full-height canted bay window with wood mullions. Various uncoursed rubble axial stacks and dormer windows are present. Acorn finials top the main entry.

A white-painted cupola rises above the angle of the right-hand wing. It houses a clock and is capped by a weather vane on an ornate finial.