Gorton Lodge, Garden Walls, Gate And Gate-Piers

Gorton Lodge consists of a house and cottage, now functioning as a single residence, along with garden walls, a gate, and gate-piers. The cottage dates from the 17th century, while the house was built in the early 18th century. The house is constructed from coursed sandstone and features a stone slate roof with ashlar stacks. It is two storeys high and has five bays in a double range, with rusticated quoins. The openings are adorned with moulded ashlar architraves, and the central doorway has a 20th-century part-glazed door beneath a plain fanlight. On the ground floor, there are sash windows, and a moulded string course runs immediately above the lintels. The first floor windows are also sash with glazing bars. The building has a moulded stone gutter, shaped kneelers, and ashlar copings. There are end stacks and ridge stacks located between the second and third bays, all featuring classical cornices.

To the right is the cottage, built from rubble with quoins and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys tall but lower than the house, with two first-floor windows that have ashlar sills and lintels, along with the remains of a mullioned window in between. The cottage also has shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, and stacks at the ends and in the middle. The garden wall is made of rubble with a coping that extends in front of the house. The gate-piers are ashlar panelled on a plinth with a cornice and pyramidal caps, positioned at right angles to the left end of the house, and there is a plain wrought-iron gate. The side wall on the right continues around the walled garden. In the 18th century, the house was owned by the Fryers and later by the Parkes, who were involved in the local knitting industry.