Keele Lodge and gate piers

Keele Lodge and gate piers, built around 1850, are located at Keele University on Keele Drive. The lodge is constructed from coursed yellow sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a plain tiled roof adorned with fishscale bands, a parapet, and raised verges on kneelers. The building has a cruciform plan and includes late 19th-century single-storeyed additions at the rear. It stands two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a prominent full-height gabled porch at the center. The windows are round-arched, with raised keystones and imposts; the central window has three lights, while the side windows are paired. The door to the porch matches this style. There are moulded bands at the first floor and below the parapet, along with two integral lateral stacks at the rear featuring paired diagonal shafts and brick capping. The left-hand gable end has a canted ground-floor bay with tall round-arched windows, and the first floor of the gable ends displays an arcade of five lights with the Sneyd family coat-of-arms above.

The gate piers are made of sandstone ashlar, square in section with chamfered corners that end in stepped stops, and they have moulded capping and finials.