Gate-Lodge, Middleton Hall

This is a picturesque gate lodge, likely dating to the later 19th century. Built as a cottage orne, it is a single storey building with an attic, and three bays wide. The lodge is constructed from squared and snecked stugged sandstone with droved dressings. Chamfered reveals characterise the windows, and the eaves overhang, though they are damaged in places. Plain bargeboards and kingpost details are present at the gableheads.

The north-west (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical with three bays. A gabled porch projects centrally, featuring a shouldered arched doorway with remnants of a boarded timber door, and a small window to the left return. A carved timber finial tops the gable apex. A tripartite window occupies the ground floor of the bay to the right, while a shield panel is set into the gablehead. A bipartite window is placed in the bay to the outer left.

The south-west elevation is symmetrical, and is constructed of random rubble with stugged and droved dressings. A central gable is prominent, featuring a bipartite window with a relieving arch at ground level, and a single window in the gablehead.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical, with two bays and random rubble construction with stugged and droved dressings. A gabled bay is advanced to the left, containing a single window centred on the ground floor and a small window to the right return. A boarded timber door is off-centre to the left of the bay to the right.

The north-east elevation presents a single, symmetrical gabled bay with a tripartite window at the centre of the ground floor and a small window set into the gablehead.

The windows are currently without glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate, with some sections missing, particularly on the porch roof, and has lead ridges. A central ashlar coped ridge stack rises from the roof, topped with circular cans. The lodge has an unusually steep pitched roof. It’s a picturesque building likely derived from a pattern book design.