North Gate-Lodge, Blackadder House

1878 with later additions and alterations. Single storey with attic, 3-bay "cottage orne", ornamental lodge house with modern brick addition and conservatory to NE. Bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course, long and short slightly advanced quoins; ashlar mullioned and transomed windows, with slender lancet lights; chamfered arrises.

SW ELEVATION: advanced jerkin-headed bay to centre with slightly advanced window with cornice and cill course, further windows flanking; bipartite window to SE return elevation, breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead above. Timber boarded half-piended porch to re-entrant NW angle to left with traverse-boarded and studded door, with wrought-iron fittings. Bay to right set back and blank.

SE ELEVATION: gabled with tripartite window (central light taller). Red brick addition with concrete coping to right with modern 2-pane window.

NE ELEVATION: modern glazed door to centre at attic level. Modern brick addition with platformed roof and modern conservatory.

NW ELEVATION: jerkin-headed gable with tripartite window as to SE.

Original glazing to all except central light of SW window and to modern addition. Ornamental complex slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates; jerkin-headed projection to centre, SW and NE, also to NW elevation. Swept steep half-piended roof to central light of tripartite to centre of SW with spherical finial. Modern rooflight to SE return of central projection (of SW). Cast-iron cresting to ridge. Ornamental pierced bargeboarding to gables with timber finials. Ashlar coped stack to centre with 2 barley-twist coped flues.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIER: to E; squared and snecked stugged sandstone with rounded droved ashlar coping. Square-plan pier to W end with pyramidal coping.