Tower Lodges

Tower Lodges is a lodge and gateway built in 1816 by Mrs E Bulwer Lytton. The structure was created using materials salvaged from a gatehouse demolished during alterations to Knebworth House in 1811. It is constructed of Tudor red brick with stone dressings, incorporating some 19th-century red brick and stucco. The building comprises two lodges flanking a 16th-century moulded archway, which has a hood mould above it, and a plaque over the gate. The lodges have two storeys and feature two-light Tudor windows with square moulded hoods. To the right of the archway is an octagonal stair turret with three sides, containing narrow slit windows and a door set in a Tudor surround. A late-19th-century extension exists to the right, incorporating reset Tudor windows. The entire structure is battlemented with 19th-century stucco.