Gatehouse, 2 Lodges, Stables, Coach House, Clock Tower, Walls

The estate gatehouse, lodges, stables, coach house, clock tower, and walls date from 1841, with later 19th-century additions and minor 20th-century alterations. The buildings are constructed of ashlar and squared coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, yellow brick, and slate roofs.

The gatehouse, situated within a stable yard and alongside a clock tower, is flanked by stone walls forming an open courtyard, framed by attached single lodges. The two-story, three-bay gate tower features a semi-circular archway with moulded impost and architraves, incorporating planked double gates. Projecting angle towers have rectangular windows to each storey and moulded string courses, topped with helmed forms and pinnacles. Above the archway is a canted oriel with a cross-mullioned window, supported by a corbelled base with a frieze featuring blank shields. A shield on the corbel displays the date 1841 and initials MIC. Stained glass within the oriel window suggests the gatehouse’s former use as a private chapel. To the right of the archway is a four-centred arched planked doorway, a two-light mullioned window above, and a two-story, irregular, four-bay L-plan house with decorative stepped and coped gables and ball finials to a projecting wing.

A tall wall with gabled coping, ramped to a central gateway with square piers, moulded cornices, and orbs, is attached to the right-hand side. A small lodge is attached to the wall, balanced by a matching lodge opposite, which is now derelict and overgrown. Both lodges feature shaped decorative gables, ball finials, and square panels bearing blank shields.

To the left of the gatehouse is a high wall with rectangular windows, an arched four-centred doorway, and a two-light mullioned window above. Beyond a semi-circular headed gateway, a moulded strapwork keystone bracket supports a sheaf of corn. Slightly advanced two-story ranges flank the gateway, displaying shaped gables, ball finials, and carved square plaques featuring the Cholmeley griffin.

The stable yard contains basket-arched carriage doors, and in the corner stands a square clock tower, with a panelled door at the base and three clock faces on the principal sides, topped by a parapet on mock machicolations with grotesque carving. The stable buildings are predominantly single-story and constructed of yellow brick, added to the original design.

Easton Hall, the seat of the Cholmeley family, was a medieval house rebuilt in the early 19th century, significantly altered around 1840, and demolished in 1951. It originally stood on the south side of the gatehouse.