West Lodge

Old Gyrn Arms and West Lodge

Old Gyrn Arms is a 20storey rubble-stone house with slate roof and 4 brick stacks. The 6-window front faces N and has 4-pane sashes under stone lintels and with stone sills. The R-hand window is set apart from the remainder which are grouped to the centre and L. The 2 windows upper R are part of West Lodge. The doorway set back from the L end has a Tudor head, stopped-chamfer surround and is inscribed '1675 GE:PK'. It has a studded early C19 door. A second doorway, with boarded door, is set back from the R end.

The L gable end has an inserted doorway with integral window in the lower storey and enlarged window in the upper storey. Behind is an L-shaped 2-storey rear wing of rubble stone and slate roof. Continuous with the L gable end of the house it has double boarded doors to the cart house in the lower storey and a horizontal-sliding sash window above. The return wall, which has a stone stack rising from the eaves to the R, has aboarded stable door to the L with a narrow ventilation strip to the R, and a renewed sash window beneath a segmental head upper centre. A lean-to is set back against the L gable end.

To the rear the main house has, to the L of the rear wing, a large sash window, lighting the stair, in a yellow brick surround and beneath a gablet, while further L is a small sash window in a similar surround. The rear wing has two 4-pane sashes in the uppper storey of its side wall, while the rear wall abuts and is continuous with the wall flanking the entrance to the drive to Gyrn Castle.

West Lodge faces S and is continuous with the upper storey of Old Gyrn Arms. It is an L-shape single-storey cottage of rubble-stone and slate roof and has openings with yellow-brick dressings, stone lintels, and 4-pane sashes. An inserted doorway is in the angle of the 2 wings. The original doorway, on the L-hand side beneath a gablet, has been converted to a window. The front wing has 2 windows facing the entrance, a single window behind, while the gable end has an external stone stack cut down below the eaves.