Walshford Lodge To Ribston Hall With Gatepiers And Linking Walls

Walshford Lodge to Ribston Hall, with gate-piers and linking walls, is a pair of lodges dating from the mid to late 18th century, possibly designed by John Carr, with a 20th-century addition. The structure is built of ashlar stone and features wrought-iron gates and Westmorland slate roofs. The two small lodge houses are connected by a curving wall to the outer pair of gate-piers. Low railings and a single-leaf gate connect the outer gate-piers to the inner ones, which support the inner pair of gates.

The lodges are single-storey, with one lodge having one bay on the left and the other having two bays on the right. The entrances are located at the rear. Round-headed sash windows with glazing bars are set in round-arched recesses, and the building has banded rustication below an impost band that runs around it. Paterae are positioned beside the heads of the windows, which are topped with dentilled triangular pediments and ashlar coping. Each lodge features cylindrical stacks at the ridge centres, and pillars flank the gable ends, supporting a globe with a projecting fluted band.

The curved linking walls are approximately 2 metres high and have flat copings. The outer pair of gate-piers, about 3 metres high, support forward-facing sphinxes. The inner pair of gate-piers, approximately 4 metres high, feature an entablature with a rosette motif and a triangular pediment topped with inward-facing lions resting a paw on a globe. Both sets of piers exhibit banded rustication. The outer gates are single gates with attached railings, approximately 1.2 metres high, featuring arrow-headed bars and dog-bars, with pendants beneath the top and bottom rails. The main gates have elaborately scrolled lock-bars. The lodge on the right has a 20th-century extension at the rear.