Gatepiers And Sea Wall, North Lodges, Gosford House

These late 18th century gatepiers and sea wall, along with twin lodges remodelled in 1857 by Robert William Billings, form part of the North Lodges at Gosford House. The lodges are situated to the northwest of the main house, and replace a section of the sea front wall built around 1800.

The lodges are constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, and are of an octagonal plan. Each lodge has a window facing the road, topped with a decorative pediment and finial. The doorways within the gateways are similarly detailed, with pointed arched windows to the outer sides. A cornice and parapet are pierced on each face by unusual open arches with an overthrow design. A small dormer window, featuring a semi-circular pediment, a ball finial and a cipher panel, breaks the parapet above the roadside window. The windows are sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, set within a polygonal roof covered with grey slates. A central, corniced stack rises from the roof. Pair of blind oval oculi, framed with rope-moulded surrounds, flank the lodges on either side of the outside wall.

Two tall gatepiers, each topped with a pyramidal cap and spike finials, connect the lodges to the flanking curtain walls. These walls have broken ashlar coping and include pedestrian passages.

Rubble walls with a stone coping run along the road and the sea front. The rubble walls enclosing the southwest area of the Gosford policies, extending to Harelaw Farm and the West Lodge, are also attributed to Billings from 1854, and are listed separately. Reputedly built in the early 19th century, these walls were possibly constructed by French prisoners of war.

This group of buildings forms part of a larger group of listed buildings associated with the Gosford Estate.