Gate lodge to Stedcombe House, and gate piers and boundary wall

This is a gate lodge built in 1898 as part of the Stedcombe House estate, designed by an unknown architect for Samuel Sanders Stephens. The lodge, along with its gate piers and boundary wall, is constructed of red brick with Beer Stone quoins and Bath Stone copings and finials. The roof is slate-tiled and pyramidal, featuring a bracketed eaves cornice and a square brick chimney stack with a moulded cap at its apex. The lodge is a single-storey building with an attic, and a rectangular floor plan. Each roof slope has a dormer window with a semi-circular pediment. Three of these dormers feature stone or composite mouldings in their tympana, while the north dormer was added later between 1988 and 1990 and remains plain. A pitched-roof porch with timber Doric columns on low brick walls forms a pedimented entrance on the south elevation, incorporating a stone tympanum displaying the monogram SSS and the date 1898. Canted timber bay windows are present on the south and west elevations, supported by shaped cill brackets. Other windows are timber casements with crown glass, set within segmental brick arches. A flat-roofed structure, created from a walled yard, extends from the rear (north) of the lodge.

Inside, the lodge has a small stair hallway leading to a sitting room facing the south front, a dining room to the northwest, and a kitchen and pantry to the northeast. Further north are a bedroom within a small lobby, a bathroom, and a utility room, created in the 20th century. The attic contains two bedrooms flanking the chimney, with a small bathroom to the west. The timber staircase has moulded treads.

The principal rooms and original bedrooms feature fireplaces with simply-moulded surrounds and cast-iron grates and inner surrounds, although the dining room fireplace is not original to the lodge. The kitchen fireplace originally contained a small range, with a plain surround. Double-height cupboards are recessed into the chimney breasts of the living and dining rooms. Four-panelled timber doors, with brass furniture, are set within moulded architraves. The flooring is timber-sawn boards, with quarry tiles in the kitchen.

The boundary features include a pair of square gate piers constructed from brick and Beer Stone, each topped with a Bath Stone ball finial. A red-brick boundary wall with Bath Stone coping runs along the southwest side of the lodge, curving down from a pier to create a low, curved wall leading to the porch steps. A cast-iron Ordnance Survey Benchmark is set into the wall.