Gatehouse at Forest Lodge

Former gate lodge, built around 1936 to the designs of Robert Lowry FRIBA for Francis Egerton Pegler, now a house.

MATERIALS: plain clay tile roof, red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond, red brick chimneystack, and leaded casement windows.

PLAN: the house is an oblong octagon in plan, with an attached rectangular-plan covered yard to the south, and an attached rectangular-plan fuel store to the south of the yard.

EXTERIOR: the one-and-half storey house is an oblong octagon in plan, with a central rectangular-plan red-brick chimneystack, and steeply-sloped plain clay tile roof. Both the east and west slopes of the roof have a dormer window clad with hanging clay tiles. The walls of the ground floor are constructed of red brick laid in English garden wall bond. The north (front) elevation has a tripartite window to its centre, and the north-east, south-east, south-west and north-west elevations each have a two-light window to their centre, all windows containing leaded casements. The single-storey covered yard to the rear (south), which provides access to the interior, has a shallow-pitched roof, and was altered in the late C20 to provide additional living accommodation, with a door and window introduced to its east elevation. The attached single-storey store at the south end of the yard has a hipped roof with a plain clay tile roof covering.

INTERIOR: not inspected. Plans of the proposed building, dated 8 July 1936, show the interior was planned to have a stair, scullery, living room, pantry, bedroom and cupboard on the ground floor of the house, with two bedrooms over, with an attached covered yard and fuel store to the rear.