Archway House

Archway House is a hunting lodge built in 1844, later converted into a school and now divided into two dwellings. Designed by Hurst and Moffatt for the Duke of Portland, it is in the Gothic style and closely resembles the Gatehouse at Worksop Priory. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with a plain tile roof added around 1983.

It features a chamfered and moulded plinth, bands at the first floor and eaves, a parapet, and moulded coped gables adorned with dogtooth detailing. The structure is two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical H-plan layout with three bays. Each side is supported by two corner buttresses and two intermediate buttresses.

The windows are designed in the Decorated style, featuring lancets with square heads set in segmental openings, complete with hood moulds and stops. The north and south fronts showcase a central pointed archway flanked by single projecting bay windows, which have diagonal buttresses, coped gables, and tympani that display sculptured hares. Each bay window contains a triple lancet with flowing tracery. Above these, there is a central transomed six-light lancet flanked by niches with figures, and beyond that, a double lancet. The uppermost section features a central gable with a niche and figure, topped by a trefoil light.

Both the east and west ends of the building have a central studded door with a hood mould. Above each door, there is a round plaque with a hood mould and border, inscribed on the east side with 'Tu secanda Marmora locas sub ipsum funus' and on the west side with 'Sepulchri Immemor Struis Domos'. Each plaque contains a shield inscribed with 'A D 1842 D P Aet. 74'.

Inside, the central archway has a moulded timber ceiling supported by arch braces on corbels. The interior also features winder stairs, seven doors with lancet panels, and a Classical style hob grate set in a chamfered surround. The central hall boasts a principal rafter roof with arch braces that support a matchboarded pointed vault.