Smeaton Lodge, Smeaton House

Mid-later 19th century gate lodge and screen walls, mid

18th century gatepiers to Smeaton House. Single storey

L-plan lodge with attic. Squared and coursed bull-faced

sandstone with ashlar margins, stone mullions to

bipartites, hoodmoulds to openings. Gabled entrance

porch in re-entrant angle; hoodmould to doorway

enclosing plaque with emblem. Tripartite to left,

bipartite to right at ground. Bipartites to attic in

gable ends. Modern dormer to attic in re-entrant

angle. Horizontal pane glazing to sash and case windows.

Grey green (Lakeland) slates, ashlar coped skews with

consoled skewputts. Ashlar coped wall adjoining lodge

and gatepiers. Diamond faced rustication and cornice to

outer piers, linked by serpentine screen wall to fluted

inner 18th century piers with ashlar bands; acanthus

scroll below cornice to gateway. Pedestrian access via

doorways in screen wall beside inner piers; ashlar

surround and keystone, large ornamental iron strap

hinges.