The Cottages And Gateway At Plumpton Place To West Of The House

The Cottages and Gateway at Plumpton Place, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1928 for Edward Hudson, serve as the main entrance to the garden, located opposite the main entrance to the house. The structure features an archway, flanked by single-storeyed L-shaped cottages. The central portion is made of red brick and includes a doorway on the outer side, which is set in a moulded wooden architrave with a pulvinated frieze and pediment. On the inner side, there is an archway shaped like a Venetian window supported by Ionic columns. The cottages are clad in weatherboarding above a red brick base and have hipped tiled roofs. Each wing of the L-shaped cottages has twin brick chimney stacks on rectangular bases. There are three sash windows with hipped roofs on each side of the gateway facing west, along with three hipped dormers on each side facing east.