Pershore (Or London) Lodge And Gates

Pershore (or London) Lodge and Gates is an important lodge and arched entrance gate to Croome Court, likely designed around 1760 by Robert Adam and altered by Wyatt around 1800. The structure is made of Bath stone ashlar. The lodge is a small two-storey building with a hipped low pitch slate roof and two paired stone stacks on the west front. The east front features a projected pedimented center with a blank panel above and a glazing bar sash window below a string course, which continues across the side bays. The west front has an arched central doorway flanked by rusticated piers, with moulded imposts and a keystone. There are glazing bar sash windows on each floor on either side of the doorway, which has a six-panel door. A plaque on the south end wall is inscribed 'Rebuilt 1877'.

The gateway is a thin triumphal arch of Palmyra type, with coupled Ionic columns on each side supporting projecting sections of the entablature, which features a dentil cornice and decorative ox-head and patera in the frieze. The central arch has a console keystone and paterae in the spandrels, with a large blank oblong panel in the frieze above. The parapet above has a central raised panel that formerly displayed a relief of 'Day', while the rear is similar but features a relief of 'Night' in the top panel. Low walls with end piers surmounted by Coade stone urns flank the gateway, although the iron railings have been removed.