West Lodge And Entrance Gates To Grittleton House

West Lodge and entrance gates to Grittleton House were built in 1854-5 by H. Clutton for Joseph Neeld. The lodge is constructed from small ashlar blocks and features a stone slate roof, moulded coped gables with finials, and a large north wall outside stack. It is 1½ storeys tall and has a T-plan design in a picturesque Tudor style. The windows are ovolo-moulded stone-mullions with arched heads and deep hoodmoulds. There is a high moulded base and a dripcourse over the ground floor and across the west and south gables.

The west gable has a ground floor 3-light mullion-and-transom window and a first floor 2-light window with a dripcourse that steps over and has a roundel at the apex. The south gable is similar but has a ground floor 2-light window and an east side-wall stack. In the southwest angle, there is an octagonal porch tower with dripcourses, a ground floor Tudor-arched doorway that is now a window, and very small arched stair lights on the first floor. The top stage of the tower is free-standing and octagonal, featuring intersecting circle tracery on the square west and south lights, topped with a stone slated octagonal spire.

The east end gable has similar details at the gable level, along with a 20th-century extension attached. The entrance screen railings and gates run south, with railings on either side of a low coped wall, featuring spear heads and dog-bars. The gates are made of ornate wrought iron and are positioned between four ashlar piers that have column-shafts set into the angles and concave-curved octagonal caps with cast-iron finials. The taller piers are located at the center double gates, with smaller piers on each side. Both the double gates and pedestrian gates on either side are adorned with ornate foliate scroll motifs and center flowers. When closed, the double gates display a large circular motif with the inscription 'Succede/Libens/Invitus/Excedas' in a border. This design appears to be a modification by H. Clutton of the plan for the Malmesbury Lodge by J. Thomson, with altered elevations. Accounts from 1855 indicate that the gates were fixed, and they were apparently made by T. Potter & Son.