NHER 54918 (Building record) - Cemetery Lodge and gate in Gorleston Old Cemetery

September 2010. Listed, Grade II.
The Cemetery Lodge and gate were built in 1879 by J.W. Cockrill in the gothic revival style from red brick with terracotta detailing with a renewed plain-tile roof and terracotta crest tiles. The plan of the building is an integrated lodge and gate, wrapping around the corner of Magdalen Way and Crab Lane. The interior is built in the gothic revival style, from the roadside the gateway is single storey and of three bays with a tall, central carriage arch recessed between a pedestrian side gate to the right and the main entrance to the lodge on the left. The carriage and pedestrian entrances retain wrought iron gates, that to the pedestrian entrance appears to be original. Above the three arches, and slightly recessed are panels of decorative brickwork in basket weave bond with columns of moulded brick separating the three compartments. Through the pedestrian entrance, and to the right, is a small triangular shaped recess with wooden benches along one side for shelter and contemplation. Further to the right and accessed from the cemetery side of the gate is a small lodge, with a tall gable stack, for a gardener or groundsman. This has been sympathetically extended along Crab Lane. The main lodge building is incorporated into the gate structure and although some of the terracotta decorative detail of the gateway facade is perpetuated on its road side façade, it is in general a more simple structure and clearly domestic in character. The two-storey lodge is in brick with a tiled roof, although the upper storey is coated in a rough cast render. The windows and rear door are modern replacements as is the wooden front door. The courtyard garden to the rear of the lodge is enclosed by a wall pierced by one gateway from the road side of the lodge and another from the cemetery side. A single public convenience is incorporated into the courtyard wall on the cemetery side of the lodge. Internally the lodge has three rooms on each floor although a small bathroom extension was added to the ground floor in around 1980. One bedroom was converted into a further bathroom more recently. All original panelled doors survive as does the deep skirting but the original fireplaces have been removed or sealed.
Information from (S1).
S. Howard (NLA), 4 October 2010.