Smeaton Lodge, Smeaton House

Smeaton Lodge is a mid to late 19th century gate lodge with screen walls, accompanied by mid 18th century gatepiers to Smeaton House. The lodge is a single-storey L-plan building with an attic, constructed from squared and coursed bull-faced sandstone featuring ashlar margins. It has stone mullions on bipartite windows and hoodmoulds over the openings. The entrance porch is gabled and located in the re-entrant angle, with a hoodmould above the doorway that encloses a plaque with an emblem. To the left, there is a tripartite window, while to the right, a bipartite window is present at ground level. The attic features bipartite windows in the gable ends, along with a modern dormer in the re-entrant angle. The sash and case windows have horizontal pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey green (Lakeland) slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews with consoled skewputts.

Adjoining the lodge are ashlar coped walls and gatepiers. The outer piers display diamond-faced rustication and a cornice, connected by a serpentine screen wall to the fluted inner 18th century piers, which have ashlar bands. The gateway features acanthus scrolls below the cornice. Pedestrian access is provided through doorways in the screen wall next to the inner piers, which have ashlar surrounds and keystones, along with large ornamental iron strap hinges.