The Lodge And Adjoining Gate And Gate Piers

This is an entrance lodge, built circa 1868-70 by William Eden Nesfield, originally situated as Cloverley Lodge. It is constructed of red brick with banded plain brick and fishscale slate-hung gables, and has a graded slate roof. The lodge follows a T-plan, with one storey and an attic. A tall, chamfered brick plinth is present. An external lateral brick stack sits to the south, connected to the attic by a pitched-roofed link, with ashlar dressings to a pair of tall intersecting circular shafts with oversailing tops.

The east front features a left-hand gabled cross wing with a double-chamfered plinth, a canted bay window containing a 1-:3-:1-light wooden mullioned and transomed window, plaster panels above with incised ornament, and a steeply-hipped slate roof. The central door is set back within the angle of the wing, featuring three beaded flush lower panels, two glazed upper panels, and a porch formed by overhanging eaves, slightly raised over the door and supported on wooden posts. A short rail to the right incorporates turned balusters and a wrought-iron finial. A small one-light wooden casement is located to the right, and a three-light wooden mullioned and transomed window is in the right-hand gable end. The building features cast-iron square section downpipes, and rainwater heads with a disc or ‘pie’ ornament, characteristic of Nesfield's work.

Adjacent gate piers and low brick linking walls with chamfered brick tops and chamfered stone copings are also part of the complex. Former wrought-iron railings have been removed with the exception of a small section beside the porch. The pair of square gate piers have moulded stone plinths, moulded cornices, and pyramidal stone caps with reeded edges at the base, a projecting disc or ‘pie’ ornament, and trumpet finials. A late 20th-century wooden gate has replaced an earlier 19th-century one. A smaller, similar pier is located to the left. The interior of the lodge has not been inspected. The lodge marks the former north entrance to Cloverley Hall, also dated 1864-70 and designed by Nesfield.