Lodge And Gates To Wray Castle

The lodge and gates to Wray Castle were built around 1845 and are possibly designed by H.P. Horner. Constructed from dressed stone with slate roofs, the building features a two-storey tower flanked by one-storey wings to the right and rear. It has a string course and a top corbelled embattled parapet that is higher on the left side. The right wing also has an embattled parapet above a string course, with a large turret on the left and a smaller turret on the right, both featuring corbelled-out embattled parapets.

On the ground floor, there are casement windows with three and two lights set in chamfered reveals. The first floor includes a Tudor-headed window with a casement of two lights that have cusped heads. To the right, there is a coped wall approximately 13 meters long, which cants forward at the end. A similar wall on the left has a gate opening with octagonal piers on square bases topped with embattled caps, and flanking segmental-pointed entrances in projecting surrounds.

The left return has a corbelled parapet that wraps around the canted rear angle, along with an embattled parapet on the rear wing, which also contains casement windows. The right return mirrors this design, featuring a low gabled wing and a lean-to wing behind the front wall, with the end of the wing roof being hipped. The property is owned by the National Trust.