Gate Lodge To West Of Entrance Gates To Hillfield Rest Garden

GLOUCESTER

SO8418NW LONDON ROAD 844-1/10/177 (North side) 12/03/73 No.101 Gate Lodge to west of Entrance Gates to Hillfield Rest Garden (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (North side) No.101 Lodge of Hillfield House)

GV II

Gate lodge. On the west side of the Entrance Gates (qv) to the Hillfield Rest Garden, formerly the grounds of Hillfield House, Denmark Road (qv). c1867, by Albert Estcourt for Charles Walker. Ashlar, low pitched slate roofs with wide eaves, end-gables and gablets on the front block, and hipped at end of rear wing, ashlar stack. Italianate style. A single-depth 2 storey block and a single storey wing at rear, a single storey canted bay window at the east gable end; the entrance faces the driveway in angle behind the front block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with a pronounced batter to the lower storey of the front block; a continuous raised band at first floor partly interrupted by adjoining ground-floor roofs; on the first floor a slight corbelled projection to the upper part of the walls below both the wide eaves and the bracketed barge boards to the gables. Symmetrical front to street has central stack rising in a slight projection from a corbelled arch with its keystone raised to the underside of the first-floor band; on the ground floor and on the first floor an arched sash to either side, all in openings with arches similar to the arch supporting the chimney projection and projecting stone sills on small brackets; on the east gable-end the canted bay has an arched sash in the front face and similar smaller sashes in the side faces in openings with raised arches linked by impost mouldings and a continuous projecting sill; on the first-floor arched sashes in a two-light opening with the arches supported centrally by a column with moulded base and foliage capital. In wing to rear a moulded string at the impost level of the arched openings; the entrance doorway with a semicircular fanlight under a hood which is a catslide extension of the supported on curved timber brackets; to left a pair of arched sashes in openings similar to those in the front block. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8428618972