The Lodge, Gaddesden Place

The Lodge at Gaddesden Place is a gatelodge built around 1870 for the Halsey family. It features polychrome brick with Bath stone dressings, and the upper parts are half-timbered with white brick infill. The building has steep red tile roofs adorned with bands of scalloped tiles. It is two storeys high in the center, flanked by single-storey wings to the north and south, and it faces east towards the drive by the entrance gates.

The central section has a ground floor made of red brick, banded in black brick, with stone sills and lintels. It includes a canted central bay window that extends as bands. Heavy wooden brackets support the front jetty of the half-timbered first floor, which has a steep faceted roof. The south wing features an arcaded wooden recessed porch in front of a boarded door, along with a projecting chimney that has an elaborate polychrome shaft. There is a rectangular two-light bay window on the south end of a small projection, which has a lean-to tiled roof supported by pierced brackets. The upper windows of the bay are adorned with panels of encaustic tiles in their aprons.

The north wing has a similar recessed porch that includes a transomed two-light casement window and a projecting chimney at the gable end. An architect's perspective drawing of the lodge is preserved among the estate papers at The Golden Parsonage.