Painswick House Lodge, gatepiers and flanking dwarf walls

Painswick House Lodge is a gate lodge at the entrance to the Painswick House estate, designed in 1824 by George Basevi, FRIBA (1794–1845), in the Tudor Gothic style. It is constructed from limestone ashlar under plain tile roofs, with the rear wing built from squared and coursed limestone. The lodge is inverted T-shaped on plan, with the main range running east–west and a rear wing extending north–south.

The main block features three gabled elevations with moulded raised copings and kneelers, and slim buttresses with offsets. All windows in the main range have ovolo-moulded mullions and rectangular leaded lights with iron cames, with hood moulds to the principal windows. The eastern bay is a canted bay window with the Hyett family crest carved in relief above the gable; the western bay is polygonal with a hipped roof. The southern elevation features a moulded doorway with hood mould, now converted to a window, and a small blind gable above bearing a carved cross in relief. A rectangular ashlar chimney stack rises to the rear of the main block. The rear wing's western elevation has a central moulded entrance doorway flanked by stone three-light diamond-mullioned windows. The northern gable end has been partially rebuilt in the 20th century. The eastern elevation contains 20th-century timber casement windows and brick round-arched basement windows, now largely obscured by later infill raising the ground level, with some brick patching visible. A lateral stack similar to that of the main block is present.

Internally, the principal rooms occupy the main block. The eastern room contains a domed recess within the canted bay window with moulded ribs, a moulded plaster cornice, ceiling decoration, and a stone fireplace with rectangular opening and delicate moulding. The former entrance doorway features a recessed Tudor arch with flanking panels. The western principal room retains a picture rail with moulded decoration. The rear wing has entirely modern finishes, though the flagstone floor of the passage between the ranges survives beneath the raised floor. Beneath the wing runs a basement divided into two rooms, built in stone with some brick, which retains a 19th-century range and bread oven in situ, accessed by a short flight of stone steps from the interior.

The gatepiers and flanking dwarf walls are contemporary with the lodge. A limestone ashlar dwarf wall with pitched coping extends south from the lodge's south elevation to join one of a pair of square-section gatepiers in ashlar with moulded cornices to pyramidal caps; its pair stands opposite the gateway. The dwarf wall then extends a short distance, turns at right angles, and runs southwards to meet a third matching pier. All dwarf walls are topped by timber railings. The gatepiers and walls appear also to have been designed by George Basevi.