West Lodge, Hendersyde Park

Early 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan classical lodge building, with extension to rear (now forming near square-plan). Dressed sandstone ashlar with architraved surrounds; rear extension of droved and plain ashlar with smooth margins to window surrounds.

NORTH EAST (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced central bay containing architraved door surround and 2-leaf timber door with 4 pane letterbox fanlight surmounting; architraved windows with plain sills to flanks. Base course and mutuled cornice to all. Similarly styled single bays to south east and north west returns.

SOUTH WEST (REAR) ELEVATION: near blind elevation with door and small window to left; two windows of differing proportions to north west return, pair of matched windows to south east return.

12-pane timber sash and case windows (with original internal shutters to most). Piended slate roof with later replacement ridgings. Originally cast iron rainwater goods (gutters concealed by low parapet carried on cornice) but later intervention sees some replacement rainwater goods to exterior of cornice. Tall central ashlar stack of lozenge plan carrying pair of mismatched cans.

QUADRANT WALLS AND GATEPIERS: pair of sandstone ashlar quadrant walls (some later repairs) terminating in square ashlar gatepiers with decorative frieze below moulded cornice, pyramidal caps surmounting.

BOUNDARY WALL: harled random rubble boundary wall with semi circular stone copes extending southwest from pier; plainer rubble wall returning northwest along policy boundary.