Cloverley Lodge And Adjoining Gates And Gate Piers

Cloverley Lodge, along with its adjoining gates and gate piers, was constructed around 1868-70 by William Eden Nesfield as the primary entrance to Cloverley Hall. The lodge is built of red brick in English bond, with grey sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a graded slate roof. It is designed in a neo-Gothic style and takes the form of an L-plan building with a single storey and an attic.

The lodge features a high plinth with a chamfered stone top, parapeted gable ends with stone copings and globe finials, and tiled ridge crestings. A brick ridge stack rises to the south-east, built on a stone base and featuring clustered octagonal shafts with projecting ribs and an oversailing cap. The north-west front has a large gabled dormer with a pair of double-chamfered mullioned stone windows flanking a central carved coat of arms bearing the motto "ALTE VOLO.” Below the dormer is a five-light double-chamfered mullioned stone window to the left, and a small hipped canted stone bay with three small chamfered lights to the right. The entrance features a triple-chamfered arch dying into chamfered reveals with run-out stops, a nail-studded boarded door with wrought-iron strap hinges, four stone steps flanked by low stone-capped brick walls. The left-hand gable end has a four-light double-chamfered mullioned stone attic window, a ground-floor double-chamfered mullioned stone window to the left, and a one-light double-chamfered window to the right. The right-hand gable end has a full-height canted bay with a hipped stone top and a 1-:4-:1-light double-chamfered mullioned stone window arrangement, the attic window with a chamfered stone cill, and the ground floor window with a dripstone. A rear wing includes a ground-floor two-light double-chamfered mullioned stone window and a gable end with a three-light double-chamfered mullioned stone attic window, and a ground-floor two-light double-chamfered mullioned stone window.

The adjoining gates and gate piers are also built of red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, with low linking walls having double-chamfered stone copings. The former wrought-iron railings have been replaced with a plain 20th-century rail. A pair of square gate piers are set on chamfered plinths, with moulded brick ribs, stone upper panels carved with stylized flowers, and moulded cornices leading to pyramidal stone caps with trumpet finials. The decorative wrought-iron gates incorporate a dog bar, dog rails, scrolled panels, cresting, standards with pineapple finials, angled stanchions, and short sections of railing to the piers. A similar wrought-iron pedestrian gate is located to the right of the right-hand pier. The end pier to the left is smaller and lacks stone carving. The interior of the lodge was not inspected. Cloverley Lodge complements Cloverley Hall, also designed by Nesfield between 1864 and 1870.