Ellesmere Lodge With Attached Walls And Pair Of Gate Piers Immediately To East

Ellesmere Lodge, built in 1836 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring, is an entrance lodge that is now disused. It is constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar on a rock-faced ashlar plinth and features a slate roof with moulded coped verges. The building is designed in a Gothic style and has a T-plan, consisting of a single storey. The front of the lodge includes a 4-light oriel window with 4-centred heads. On the right gable, there is a steeply-gabled porch with both inner and outer 4-centred arches, and an octagonal oriel to the right that has a projecting finial from a crenellated parapet. The ridge stack has two attached octagonal shafts with chamfered capping. The projecting front gable features a stepped external stack with short moulded shafts and a datestone inscribed "F/C K/M" along with the date "1836" in Gothic lettering within a diamond-shaped panel. Attached to the left of the lodge is a crenellated wall made of roughly coursed sandstone rubble, forming a small square enclosure with a segmental-headed doorway at the front and an infilled doorway to the left. Approximately 4 meters to the east of the lodge are the gate piers made of sandstone; the left pier is octagonal with a finial projecting from a crenellated parapet, while the right pier is square with moulded capping and a finial. The interior was noted to be in poor condition during a resurvey in February 1987, but it was observed to have a chamfered ceiling beam in the rear left room.