The Lodge, With Attached Gatepier And Wall

The Lodge, with attached gatepier and wall, is a mid-19th century structure originally situated at the entrance to Donington Hall. The lodge is built with ashlar walls to the ground floor and a half-timbered upper storey featuring decorative panels of whitewashed herringbone brick infill. It has a steeply pitched slate roof with a wide band of fishscale slates and richly cusped bargeboards, designed in a picturesque Vernacular style. The north side features an external ashlar chimney with a pair of cylindrical Tudor shafts; one has a zig-zag ornament and the other is spirally fluted, both topped with octagonal caps. The lodge is one storey and attic. The upper storey juts out to the east, supported by a moulded bressummer on shaped wooden brackets. The east end is gabled, and the upper storey contains traceried panels and a canted wooden oriel window with trefoil-headed leaded lights and a moulded base. Below this is a verandah with a hipped slate roof supported by patterned stone columns with cushion capitals. The verandah shelters a central door with a 20th-century glazed porch, flanked by single leaded lights, as well as short screen walls with moulded copings and blind four-centred arches. On the south side is a jettied gabled semi-dormer with a Y-traceried arched window, and a stone window below with a pair of arched lights and a Tudor hood-mould. To the left is a lower, one-bay ashlar extension with a similar ground floor window, and a 20th-century three-light wooden casement to the first floor. Attached to the north east corner is an octagonal ashlar gatepier with quatrefoil panels to the cap and a moulded finial. Approximately 130 metres of dressed stone wall with pitched stone coping runs to the north west of the gatepier, sloping downhill and matching the wall and gatepier found in the neighbouring property.