Tisbury Lodge With Gates And Gate Piers

Tisbury Lodge, built in 1860 by William Burn for the Marquess of Westminster, serves as the lodge to Fonthill Abbey. It is constructed from limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof featuring coped verges and ashlar stacks, designed in an L-plan. The building showcases a Scottish baronial style that complements Fonthill Abbey, which was also designed by Burn and demolished in 1955.

The lodge is a single storey with an attic and includes two sash windows. A 20th-century timber porch is attached to a stone porch that has a 4-pane sash window. To the right, there is a cylindrical tower with narrow round-headed lights and a conical roof adorned with corbelled eaves and a finial. The left side facing the drive features a canted bay with 6-pane and 4-pane sashes, and a 6-pane sash on the first floor displaying the carved heraldic arms of the Marquess of Westminster.

At the rear, there is a lean-to extension from the 1960s with sashes, and to the left, a two-storey wing with additional sashes. All sash windows are set in roll-moulded architraves with rounded corners. Inside the porch, the original planked front door with ornamental hinges is preserved, along with a stair turret that features a stone newel staircase.

To the left of the lodge are two pairs of square limestone gate piers topped with obelisk or ball finials, flanked by wrought-iron scrolled gates and dwarf walls on either side.