Gorton Lodge, Garden Walls, Gate And Gate-Piers

SD 99 NE 15/100

MELBECKS HATTERS ROOF Gorton Lodge, garden walls, gate and gate- piers

GV II

House and cottage, now house, and garden walls, gate and gate-piers. C17 cottage, early C18 house. House: coursed sandstone, stone slate roof, with ashlar stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays, double range. Rusticated quoins. Openings have moulded ashlar architraves. Central doorway with C20 part-glazed door below plain fanlight. Ground floor: sash windows, moulded string course immediately above lintels. First floor windows, sashes with glazing bars. Moulded stone gutter, shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. End stacks and ridge stacks between bays 2 and 3, all with classical cornices. Cottage to right: rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, lower than house. 2 first floor windows with ashlar sills and lintels, remains of mullioned window in between. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, stacks end and middle. Garden wall of rubble, with coping, drops in front of house. Ashlar panelled gate-piers on plinth with cornice and pyramidal caps at right angles to left end of house. Plain wrought-iron gate. Side wall on right continues round walled garden. In C18, the house of the Fryers, later the Parkes, involved in local knitting industry.

Listing NGR: SD9804797713