Monument Lodges, Gate Piers And Screen, Trentham Gardens

The Monument Lodges, gate piers, and screen at Trentham Gardens were designed by Joseph Pickford of Derby and built around 1775.

The lodges are made of ashlar stone, while the extensions are constructed from painted brick. The roofs of the lodges and the north-eastern extension are covered with slate, whereas the southern extension has a tile roof. There is also a modern glass-canopied extension situated between the lodges.

The overall structure includes gate piers, a screen, lodges, and flanking extensions. On either side of the road, there are two large, square gate piers, connected by a screen with arched pedestrian entrances leading to the lodges. The 19th-century extensions are positioned beside the lodges.

Architecturally, the lodges are designed in the Palladian style, featuring dentilled pediments and large round-arched recesses with a blind oculus above a six-over-six sash window. A string course runs at the first-floor level, extending across the screens and the gate piers, serving as coping for the screens and raised over the segmental arches of each pedestrian gateway.

The gate piers are notably large compared to the lodges, each containing a niche, a panel above the string course, and a moulded cap.

The mid-19th-century extensions flanking the lodges do not follow the Palladian style but instead reflect Victorian domestic architecture. Each extension has a single-storey outshut attached to a main two-storey building. While they roughly mirror each other, the size and arrangement of the windows vary, as do the positions of the chimneys. Both extensions feature casement windows.