Description

Mid-later 19th century gate lodge and screen walls, mid
18th century gatepiers to Smeaton House. Single storey
L-plan lodge with attic. Squared and coursed bull-faced
sandstone with ashlar margins, stone mullions to
bipartites, hoodmoulds to openings. Gabled entrance
porch in re-entrant angle; hoodmould to doorway
enclosing plaque with emblem. Tripartite to left,
bipartite to right at ground. Bipartites to attic in
gable ends. Modern dormer to attic in re-entrant
angle. Horizontal pane glazing to sash and case windows.
Grey green (Lakeland) slates, ashlar coped skews with
consoled skewputts. Ashlar coped wall adjoining lodge
and gatepiers. Diamond faced rustication and cornice to
outer piers, linked by serpentine screen wall to fluted
inner 18th century piers with ashlar bands; acanthus
scroll below cornice to gateway. Pedestrian access via
doorways in screen wall beside inner piers; ashlar
surround and keystone, large ornamental iron strap
hinges.

Statement of Interest

Original gates now missing.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808868

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)