Cell Lodge And Adjoining Gates And Gatepiers

Cell Lodge and the adjoining gates and gatepiers are located in Markyate and date from the early to mid-19th century. They were built for D G Adey, possibly by the architect Robert Lugar, who made alterations to the main house between 1825 and 1826. The lodge has been extended to the east in a matching style.

The building is constructed of plum brick with blue headers, and incorporates sandstone blocks in the gate piers, along with moulded stucco window dressings. The eastern extension features plum brick with a band of black brick at its base, and the roofs are steeply pitched with red tiles. The lodge is irregular in shape, two stories high, and designed in an Elizabethan style. It is connected by a 3-meter high wall that includes a small gate leading to a pair of 4-meter high composite gatepiers, which have timber boarded gates and an overthrow to the west.

Architectural details of the lodge include moulded gable parapets, a large internal chimney with four diagonally set square shafts that have corbelled heads, and a single-storey gabled porch on the west side featuring a 4-centred Tudor arch in plaster. There is also a canted stone bay window on the north side within the park. The extension is designed as a two-story crosswing with matching moulded gable parapets, and lower gabled parts that project to the east behind a garden wall.

The windows are transomed in stucco with chamfered and ovolo-moulded frames, and feature metal opening lights. The earlier parts of the lodge have moulded stone gutters that end in gargoyles at the gable parapets. A depressed two-centred pointed stone arch leads to the side gate, characterized by impost blocks with three stepped projections. Each gatepier consists of a taller rectangular brick pier that is 'rusticated' with a projecting narrower brick course every fifth course, and is topped with a massive sandstone block that is rock-faced with drafted margins. The capping stone features a deep coved overhang in an Egyptian style, and there is a lower brick supporting pier on the outside with a blind half-arch between.