Bishopsgate Lodge

Built in 1860 as the north lodge of Horsley Towers and served as a home for the estate carpenter.

Bishopsgate Lodge was built in 1860 in the characteristic Lovelace style of flint and decorative bricks with a series of arched windows fringed in roll-moulded black and red brickwork.

This building was one of five gatehouses constructed surrounding Lord Lovelace’s Horsley Towers estate, this one serving as the main tradesman’s entrance and was home to the chief estate carpenter. The original gateway had a central arch over the drive connecting with the adjacent blacksmith’s premises but this was removed in the 1920’s to allow better access for large vehicles. 

Today this Grade II listed building is a private house situated on Ockham Road South beside what has become the main access road leading to the De Vere’s Horsley Estate.