Gatehouse To Sedgwick House School

This is a late 19th-century gatehouse, built in 1868 by Paley and Austin as part of Sedgwick House School. It is constructed from tooled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings, topped with a graduated greenslate roof, a stone ridge, and two chimneys featuring three octagonal shafts. Cast-iron gutters are fitted with decorative brackets. The building follows an L-shaped plan, with a distinctive octagonal north end housing the gateway. It is a single-story structure with attics. The east side has two windows, each with three lights, featuring stone mullions, surrounds with arched heads to the lights, and glazing bars. Two gabled dormers are present, each with decorative bargeboards. The entrance, in the octagonal end, has a diagonally boarded door within an enclosed timber lean-to porch with a slate roof, flanked by decorative cast-iron downpipes. The garden front incorporates a triangular stone bay window, a small single-light window with a hood mould and label, and a dormer window matching those on the east side.