West Lodge And Associated Entrance Walling And Gate-Piers

West Lodge, along with its associated entrance walling and gate-piers, was built around 1834 as a lodge for a country house. It was constructed for Benjamin Sampson, who managed a local powder factory. The building is made of shale rubble with dressed architectural details and slate sills. It features a polygonal hipped roof covered with scantle slate, projecting eaves, a lean-to at the rear, and a central axial stone stack with a diagonally-set brick chimney.

The lodge has a layout of two rooms flanking a baffle entry, with additional service rooms in the integral lean-to. It is designed in the Gothic style, with a symmetrical two-window east front that faces the driveway. The central entrance has a steep, four-centred arched wooden doorway with the original ledged door. A porch supported by four wooden posts has a scantle slated roof and a weatherboarded gable. The windows have steep, four-centred arched recessed openings with original paired arched traceried lights above lozenge-paned casements, all of which are leaded. The corners of the building are splayed to the left and right.

On the south side wall facing the road, there is a window that matches those on the front, and slate-coped walling screens the lean-to on the left, which has a quatrefoil window opening. The interior has not been inspected. The entrance walling is made of rubble and is quadrant-shaped where it connects to square granite gate-piers that have tall recessed side panels. The wooden gate is braced below the lock rail and has dowelling above, hung with a self-closing bottom hinge, and includes a hinged keeper to hold the gate open. This lodge is a complete and unextended example from the early 19th century, associated with the good quality house known as Tullimaar, built around 1828.