The Lodge To Fanhams Hall

The Lodge to Fanhams Hall is a gatehouse with wing walls, built in 1901 by W Wood Bethell for Richard Benyon Croft. It features a roughcast exterior with limestone dressings and steep red tiled roofs. The ashlar wing walls frame the gatehouse at the main entrance. The structure has two storeys in the center, flanked by three-storey square pyramid-roofed towers. The central entrance boasts a large semi-circular archway made of moulded stonework, topped with an ogee moulded label and a carved Fleur-de-lis. The towers project on either side and include ashlar plinths, quoins, moulded eaves cornices, and stone-framed mullioned windows across three floors. Each tower has a tall external chimney on the outer side, featuring tabled offsets and a tall stone shaft made up of four joined octagonal shafts. To each side, there is a high stone wall that projects in a double curve and steps down slightly. This wall has a moulded cornice and chamfered plinth, terminating in a tall rusticated pier with a ball finial. The entrance is adorned with decorative wrought iron gates in the Arts and Crafts style.