Rosary Cemetery Lodge

Rosary Cemetery Lodge is a cemetery lodge and office built in 1860 by J S Benest of Norwich. It is constructed from gault brick in Flemish bond and features a state roof with tiled coping on the gable ends, which have corbelled kneelers and a moulded brick modillion cornice. The building is rectangular in shape, positioned at right angles to the road, and faces the drive entrance to the cemetery. Designed in the Tudor Gothic style, it has one storey and an attic, with an asymmetrical three-window front on the southeast side. The windows are two-light cavetto moulded brick mullion-transom windows with four-centred arches and hoodmoulds. The first floor has two dormers on the left with moulded brick gables. There is a canted bay on the left side of the ground floor, featuring moulded mullion-transom windows. A panelled door is located to the left of centre, framed with a moulded surround and headmould. The southwest gable end facing the road also has similar mullion-transom windows and a stone inscription at first floor level that reads 'ROSARY CEMETERY OFFICE' in upper case sans serif. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to be largely unaltered, except for one blocked doorway. Rosary Cemetery is noted as reputedly the first private non-denominational cemetery in England, with a chapel built in 1897.