Warren Gate

Warren Gate is a house built in 1899 by the architect Maurice Beveridge Teulon for his own residence. It is constructed of ragstone rubble with cut stone dressings, and has a tiled roof. The house is arranged on a “Y” plan with two storeys. It is in a neo-17th century vernacular style, incorporating elements of neo-Baroque and 18th-century design.

The front of the house, consisting of two canted wings, has two ground-floor cross windows in each wing, with two first-floor casements to the right and one to the left. All windows are wooden framed with square leaded panes. A central entrance porch is formed by a stone segmental arch across the angle of the wings, decorated with swags and flowers, and a stone roof. The arched stone-framed door has arched side lights and overlights, and a two-leaf door with carved colonnettes, swags and metal door furniture. Cut stone bands mark the window sill and lintel levels. There are wooden plank eaves, a hipped gable, one end gable, and two ridge stacks.

The garden front features two outer three-sided canted stone-framed bow cross windows, with transoms forming arches. The third face of the “Y” plan incorporates a single-storey lean-to service corridor. One gable displays an original variation of a Venetian window.

Warren Gate reflects the work of Maurice Beveridge Teulon, son of the High Victorian architect S. S. Teulon, demonstrating a similar freedom in design and playful approach that earned his father the nickname "Rogue" architect. Teulon practiced as an architect in Crowborough, as recorded in Kelly’s Sussex directory of 1887.