Late 19th century two-storey cart lodge, Gate Farm (EHER 81885)

Partially destroyed. A probably late 19th century cart lodge with hay loft in the first storey. It is built from red brick and is partially covered with untreated weatherboard. The roof is covered with corrugated metal sheets. It is open to the front and east elevations and has a pair of vertically boarded doors on the first floor of the south frontage. It formerly had a projecting first floor structure to the west which covered a passage below.

A probably late 19th century cart lodge with hay loft in the first storey. It is built from red brick and is partially covered with untreated weatherboard on the east and west gables and on the first storey of the south frontage. It has not been possible to describe the north elevation as this is not visible on Google Streetview imagery (<1>). The roof is covered with corrugated metal sheets. The ground floor is open to the front and the first floor above is supported by two central timbers. There are two brick-built arches on the ground floor of the east elevation which formerly gave access to the (now destroyed) cart lodge to the east (EHER 81884). The roofline of EHER 81884 is visible as an outline on the east face and above this is a square opening, presently boarded with timber. There is a pair of vertically boarded doors in the centre of the first floor of the south frontage which were probably for the use of this storey as a hayloft. There is a third vertically boarded door at the same level on the west elevation which probably gave access to the upper storey of a (now destroyed) covered passage to the west. The south-west corner has been reinforced with a brick 'sleeve' and the lower portion of a possible drainpipe is in situ at this corner. The rear of the building can be seen in an historic photograph in <2> and appears to abut a (now destroyed) single-storey north-south range to its north. The covered passage can also be seen, and is similarly shown on the 2nd edition OS map. The 1st edition OS map does not appear to show the cart lodge and this suggests a construction date between 1861 and 1893. Both the 2nd and 3rd edition maps show the cart lodge as continuous with the (now destroyed) east-west cartlodge (EHER 81884), but this is unlikely to have been the case owing to the fact that it is a two-storey structure and the east-west cartlodge was a single storey structure, as is proven by the shadow of its roofline. <2> <3> <4>